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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #87: Buddanization and again: about the S2's diaphragms. by Romy the Cat on 2007-06-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Vitavox’s S2 Survival Guide. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  123 Replies 
This post is split form the thread:http://www.GoodSoundClub.com/TreeItem.aspx?PostID=4549http://www.GoodSoundClub.com/TreeItem.aspx?PostID=4556[quote user="jessie.dazzle"] "...I very much might try to use the metal suspension again when I will be dri...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #145: Hold your horses! by Romy the Cat on 2015-10-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Another time aligned 5-way horn project in Horn-Loaded Speakers  189 Replies 
[quote user="Murataltuev"] Now it is clear! Thank you, Romy!Today I auditioned and measured GOTO with closed hole in back chamber. Mid-bass completely disappeared! With closed back chamber it works efficiently only from 200Hz! So, I'm going to tr...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: A Frankenstein Macondo - Injection channel - trying it as open baffle. by Rewind on 2013-07-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A Frankenstein Macondo - Injection channel - trying it as op... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  14 Replies 
Hi,I am slowly building my own Macondo. I understand why the injection channel is there. It brings some kind of softness that the compression drivers lack. I am using a 12" JBL midbass driver (~100dB sensitivity) in a 50L single driver Marshall cabin...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: The Japa-Brazilian horn: a short collective reply. by Romy the Cat on 2007-03-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Ridiculous Japa-Brazilian horn. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  54 Replies 
[quote user="pe1mmk"]Well Cat you can call me whatever you like, but you still did not answer my question. Both have a horn for highs, for mids and for lows, only the sub lows are handled differently. [/quote] I do not think I called you with names...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #32: The eyes wide shut? by Romy the Cat on 2007-03-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Ridiculous Japa-Brazilian horn. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  54 Replies 
[quote user=""]...The most obvious problem is with the Bass drivers, which are left to radiate both to the front (via the horns) as well as to the rear... which in this case really means to the front!... The rear of the drivers are aimed upward at a ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #143: Incorrect by Romy the Cat on 2015-10-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Another time aligned 5-way horn project in Horn-Loaded Speakers  189 Replies 
[quote user="Murataltuev"]Romy, thank you very much for very detailed explanation of your horn theory. Let me present some doubts about it. From physics basics when we have more than one springs (suspension, throat resistance, back chamber) we can...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #112: You again sound like a fish thrown to a beach. by Romy the Cat on 2010-07-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  455 Replies 
[quote user="msaudio"] Romy   If you would thank about what you are building and what it does, you would grasp the concept of my thanking. You have a 7inch hole on your bafflle with your woofer on the back side of it in a sealed box. The only...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #138: Horn theory by Murataltuev on 2015-10-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Another time aligned 5-way horn project in Horn-Loaded Speakers  189 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]You do not see any explanation is because you are not accustom to think about explanations but wait that explanation will be brought to you. Here is a homework to you: provide answers to the following questions:   1) Wha...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: A phase plug under 500Hz – my mania of disagreement by Romy the Cat on 2006-11-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Phase plug for midbass in Horn-Loaded Speakers  23 Replies 
[quote user="ulf"]A few years ago we discovered the tractrix horn for MF use. It was really the most important improvement so far. No more honking exponential horn sound. The improvement was so clear that A/B testing was not needed. [/quote] For wha...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: Gray matter is not so grey by haralanov on 2010-08-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Natural Remedies for Sick Speakers? in Audio Discussions  28 Replies 
[quote user="Paul S"] I remembered a host of "old" drivers from my past (not old at the time...) that, if memory serves, sounded rather muffled and slow, with humped response[/quote]Yes, Paul, that's exactly the way they sound in their original condi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #22: RE: Lower limit: S3 vs S2 into multi-cell by Romy the Cat on 2010-12-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Adding one more non-spherical to Macondo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  23 Replies 
If you think that Jews on Christmas only abuse Chinese food and watch endless movies then think again. Since obnoxious stolen Christians my beloved Christmas tree a few years back some of the Jews torture compression drivers during Christmas’ eve...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #293: OK, they are ready to fly tomorrow. by Romy the Cat on 2010-09-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  455 Replies 
The back chamber are installed, the horns are fully assemble and ready to be hoisted tomorrow. I will go to bad today playing…. Here are a few shots for history as if it fly tomorrow into attic then it never will be seen. On the last image you might ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #228: Added mass resonance by unicon on 2010-09-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  455 Replies 
Roman,  first of all I feel good about your bass horn that's what i have always bin dreaming and if i get the space for it wont even waste a minute :)I think you already know it or using it ...You mentioned using a foam in  back chamber so it adds a ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #273: How "smartly" to displace air from the back chamber. by Romy the Cat on 2010-09-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  455 Replies 
Ok, the attic is all prepared and ready is host the horns. I installed the final 14/50 drivers and put in the first layer of foam. I do not like the result. With the large death of the foam that need it will take for me weeks to pile a layer by layer...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #16: 416 resonance by Horn Savant on 2010-08-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The best 20 hz bass horn in Horn-Loaded Speakers  20 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]. What was your resonant frequency after loading? The 416 are 25Hz drivers, after loading and with two drivers it might be deep in teens. From the picture it looks like you keep the back chamber of extra large space, or eve...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #44: A microscopic pneumatic valve? The field-coil… diaphragm damping? by Romy the Cat on 2007-08-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Adding one more spherical to Macondo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  92 Replies 
What I think I would need is microscopic pneumatic valve that I would be able to stick into my back chamber and that would have a little-bolt that would allow adjusting the diameter of the leaking “port”... Sure, it would be fun to have the valve to ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #135: You need ether a shorter women or a larger horn. by Romy the Cat on 2009-04-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Jessie Dazzle Project in Horn-Loaded Speakers  172 Replies 
A few questions. What driver is it? It looks like it is 15 Vitavox, is it 151 or 15/40? What the resonant frequency of the horn and driver with no back chamber? The most important: how the hell all of it sound. I do not be believed that you did not h...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #48: Straight / J Horn - Why? by skushino on 2009-08-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Midbass Horns and Real Estate. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  247 Replies 
What is the purpose of having the flexibility to re-configure from straight to J horn?This thing will be large and massive enough that physically moving it from one configuration to another will be difficult and require a lot of effort.  Conceptually...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #304: I see no conflict at all. by Romy the Cat on 2011-02-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy The Cat's new Listening Room in Audio Discussions  478 Replies 
[quote user="JJ Triode"]Romy,You refer to the D minor concerto as a "piano concerto," but wasn't it originally composed for harpsichord, like all his other keyboard works? (Except organ of course.)  Anyway, I have a harpsichord recording of the D...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: The ideal dual-concentric horn instalation. by Romy the Cat on 2005-12-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The IDEAL horn system in Horn-Loaded Speakers  27 Replies 
[quote user="MochaMike"]A stereo three way horn system with a dual concentric 15" woofers backloaded to 50 cycles and front loaded  with a  short round tractrix horn  200-800 cycles handed off to the  concentric  2"  com...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: The divers testing. by Romy the Cat on 2010-05-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  455 Replies 
This weekend if I have time I will be doing the testing of my driver deciding which one I will be using. The framework of testing will be the following: a single driver, closed at 150Hz first order, mounted in infinite baffle and working along with M...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #192: The connection between first and second section is done. by Romy the Cat on 2010-08-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  455 Replies 
This connection is the only connection that my horn will have. From one side it will be back chamber with hard-attached first section. The first section is very critical as it has a transition from 7” round throe to trapezoid of the rest of the horn....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #302: The overlap between drywall and horns and no Sound. by Romy the Cat on 2010-09-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  455 Replies 
Yes, to have an overlap between drywall and horns with drywall layer extended from horn for a few mm is my leading idea. Still I do not have a final solution yet and am conspiring options. How does it sound? I have no idea. I understandably have a lo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #201: A driver of some sort? by Romy the Cat on 2010-08-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  455 Replies 
[quote user="noviygera"]What is that round yellow thing in the right corner of the picture? A driver of some sort? [/quote]Yes, they are Fane 24” bass driver with 24Hz primary resonance. I am waiting for the final sound check; the final is long time ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #224: Foam Expansion by Paul S on 2010-08-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  455 Replies 
Jessie is correct about the forcefulness of the expansion of many over-the-counter foams, like generic Great Stuff from Home Depot, etc.  In fact, many homebuilders were having problems with the foam they put around door and window frames, etc. durin...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #100: 46Hz, not 42 by Murataltuev on 2015-10-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Another time aligned 5-way horn project in Horn-Loaded Speakers  189 Replies 
[quote user="anthony"]You get three octaves of horn loading and then the horn attenuates the signal at 24db/octave below the lower knee and 6dB/octave above the upper knee.  So a horn with a lower knee of 42Hz will have an upper knee of about 336Hz r...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #177: With or Without Sound Shaping? by Paul S on 2022-02-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Remedies the Beauty in Playback Listening  298 Replies 
Hmmm... I guess you have to start somewhere, and it did originally seem to me that the "headwaters" of the divergent projects were the "original accidental" Dannoys, with the disconnected Scanspeak 10" riding shotgun in a weirdly-connected chamber of...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Suggested target curves and setup techniques for Pro Audio Digital Equ... by Thorsten on 2005-03-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Suggested target curves and setup techniques for Pro Audio D... in Didital Things  9 Replies 
.... in home systems for Room correction and general system EQFolks,This is from my own Yahoo group, but may be of interest here....Since writing this I have in fact changed my speakers to dipoles and do not currently use a PADEQ (it will return thou...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #134: Update : "Painless" Mid-bass Horn by jessie.dazzle on 2009-04-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Jessie Dazzle Project in Horn-Loaded Speakers  172 Replies 
jd wrote : "...I may have come up with a way of making the BIG horns fairly painlessly..." Yes well, I really must give up the absinthe !Lbjefferies7 wrote :"...Not "end-of-life"in the sense that it will be built and then I...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #18: A typical upperbass horn mistake. by Romy the Cat on 2006-05-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Problems with horns: upper bass in Horn-Loaded Speakers  109 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]The biggest problem that usually people face when they listen the middbas horn is that people tend to make the middbas horns too short. In the short horn the driver shot right through the horn and the LF go not “get loaded”...
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