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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Your playback is stressing drama by idiosyncratic use of texture and c... by skushino on 2011-05-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Playback as an expressive tool: what are your listening obje... in Playback Listening  5 Replies 
This is one of my favorite posts on your site.My daily playback system uses Tannoy 15" Gold drivers in large back-loaded Autograph cabinets.  It isn't used for critical listening, rather it's mostly on in the background playing my local NPR radio sta...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #57: A few comments about the big ass horn. by Romy the Cat on 2008-11-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Problems with horns: upper bass in Horn-Loaded Speakers  109 Replies 
1)      If you decided to use the 12” JBL 2206H driver then I doubt  that you might talk about 4” throat. A 12” driver with wide outer suspension might go with 7”-8” throat. The 6” might do, though it might be a stretch....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: Re: Useable range of the big horns & mid-bass solutions by i_should_coco on 2006-09-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Big mama 1.5" horns.... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  27 Replies 
Hello Romy,Thanks for the great explanation, I'm a newcomer to horns, so please treat me gently ;-)Very interesting info, so in essence there are two limits, the real "hard" limit, where you risk damage to the driver, and the "sensible" limit, below ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #33: Miscast castors I hope these are not! But we will see soon enough. by oxric on 2011-12-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Rakeshorns in Horn-Loaded Speakers  33 Replies 
[quote user="jessie.dazzle"]Rakesh,Two things I see that may or may not turn out to be an issue:1) The relatively narrow stance of the front wheels; depending on how heavily you load the top of the frame, stability could be a bit on the limit when mo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Stands for Super Melquiades. by Romy the Cat on 2006-08-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Stands for Super Melquiades. in Melquiades Amplifier  6 Replies 
Those all things take too much space and the new amp for the “fundamental channel” does not really help the situation. I decided to convert the Super Melquiades into something that would have smaller footprint and position the control amplifier unit ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Economic stimulus package for horn building hoodlums? by serenechaos on 2009-04-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The tapped horns: cons, pros and Sound in Horn-Loaded Speakers  57 Replies 
I do not know what is meant by “close bottom” or “open bottomless”-- please expound?I do not know of importance of enemys death to this topic. There is a long thread in the subwoofer section of "devil audio" about tapped horns.  John mentioned gettin...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: RE: methodological variables and uncontrollable ingredients? by Romy the Cat on 2006-08-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Monitors: Wishful thinking in Audio Discussions  8 Replies 
I am really not an expert in digital crossovers. I rented in past a few, inducing the Behringer DCX2496 that Thorsten mentioned. I less was concern at that time about the unit as prototyping crossover but rather was trying to learn if the digital cro...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: SPUnisation of Macondo: how to catch own testicals. by Romy the Cat on 2007-02-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: SPUnisation of Macondo: how to catch own testicals. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  1 Replies 
It is amassing what kind of tricks the Fundamentals Channel allows to play. Since my high-frequency Vitavox S2 driver “clicked” recently: http://www.goodsoundclub.com/TreeItem.aspx?PostID=3592 my “Fundamental Channel”  with my LF Vitavox S2 al...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #36: Making it more racial: why I ever need capacitors? by Romy the Cat on 2008-01-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Gas voltage reference 0A2 tubes. in Melquiades Amplifier  42 Replies 
Thanks, jk I have given a lot of thoughts to this topic lately and have a number of conversations with various people about the subject. A friend of mine from Europe, who is currently at fitness protection program, suggested that: “.. in my "real" ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #41: The singe-stage, the S2, the RL filter and the … Alleluia. by Romy the Cat on 2007-09-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 6 Channel Version of Super Melquiades in Melquiades Amplifier  131 Replies 
One of the most interesting outcomes of the Milq conversion into 6 channels is the impact it had to it MF channel.  The tweeter is a separate subject, I still work on it, I know how it will be done but I did not hear the final result. I would li...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Bias or do not Bias – what a qeston!!! by Romy the Cat on 2007-08-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 6 Channel Version of Super Melquiades in Melquiades Amplifier  131 Replies 
Contemplating now how to organize biasing for 3 singe stages of my 6-chanls amp I was faced the dilemma: do I need to bias my tubes. The 6E5P/6E6P are Russian tubes and it means that are very different right from the boxes. The Milq, driver tubes, be...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: CES and the "BEST digital on the planet". by Romy the Cat on 2005-12-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: CES – constant but fortunately final pain. in Audio Discussions  2 Replies 
Thanks, Steve, though I believe you forget to mention to the room number where Alex Peychevs will be demonstrating. [quote user="smilin"] His ideas, and products differ from yourself, but, ya gotta hear it to believe it.  He HATES all existing...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #104: To be seen.... by Romy the Cat on 2021-10-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo's Axioms: Horn-loaded acoustic systems in Horn-Loaded Speakers  120 Replies 
+++ Perhaps less dynamic behavior of the speaker would be a welcome compromise. Maybe Romys injection channel was the beginning of the end... Here is 2 very interesting questions. Is less dynamic behavior beneficial or the dynamic how ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: A tribune to Transient Evenness or … by Romy the Cat on 2006-08-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A tribune to Transient Evenness or … in Playback Listening  0 Replies 
…or the “The new Channel”: some observations after the game. This thread is organic derivation of the multi-paged thread: http://www.goodsoundclub.com/TreeItem.aspx?postID=2433#2433 First of all: despite that I got some preliminary positive result...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: JBL 2490 mid-range driver by Romy the Cat on 2011-01-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: JBL 2490 mid-range driver in Horn-Loaded Speakers  10 Replies 
A few months ago a reader of my site contacted me and informed about that he found a very interesting driver, that his is using and he is very excited about it. The driver is JBL 2490. http://www.jblpro.com/pub/components/2490.pdf ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #40: What Cetla Ledom 19 will have? by Romy the Cat on 2011-04-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Altec Model 19 in Boston. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  61 Replies 
I was trying to strategize what would I do it tomorrow someone get in touch with me and offer my $50K. In another words what would I do to convert the Altec 19 to Cetla Ledom?This is an interesting discussion itself as it gives a blueprint for me...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #25: Pacific Microsonics vs. Lavry Gold in D/A mode. by Romy the Cat on 2009-07-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Recording options: Pacific Microsonics vs. Lavry Gold. in Didital Things  24 Replies 
In continuation to the "A new round of Pacific’s DAC listening" post.... I have a number of revisions of this little contest between two DACs in this thread and in other threads. In all of them the Lavry 924 has a little edge over Pacific Microso...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #36: Amplifier is not a 'product' but a 'solution'. by Romy the Cat on 2007-01-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Lamm Industries: a special interview with a special company in Audio News  97 Replies 
[quote user="Gregm"] No-one is criticising the ML3 (amplification) product. We are discussing the concept and the applicability of such products, i.e. the ultimate limitation of an amplifier called upon to work from DC to daylight and, accordingly, d...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #182: What if…. by Romy the Cat on 2017-12-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to USE “Resonating Oops” in loudspeakers in Horn-Loaded Speakers  184 Replies 
Josh, this was an excellent question and I was asking myself the same question a lot during the different stages of my understanding of the Macondo architecture. I would not call it “resonance channel” but rather the “injection channel” as it not ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Cogent+Electronluv+Acapella=Wretched What? by Romy the Cat on 2007-09-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Cogent+Electronluv+Acapella=Wretched What? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  5 Replies 
It looks like the Cogent boys came up with a new design. It is good that they are keep looking, even thogh they unfortunately are restricted with their desire to stretch the use of their drivers over too wide bandwidth…. The new Cogent setup lo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #67: The Fundamentals Channel and imaging altitude. by Romy the Cat on 2008-07-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Jessie Dazzle Project in Horn-Loaded Speakers  172 Replies 
[quote user="jessie.dazzle"] Though the frames have wheels and roll very easily, my room is cursed with an elevated platform smack in the middle of everything (about 14 inches higher than the main floor), and to move the horns up on to or down off of...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: Looking at the tapped horn further… by Romy the Cat on 2009-04-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The tapped horns: cons, pros and Sound in Horn-Loaded Speakers  57 Replies 
[quote user="serenechaos"] I do not know of importance of enemys death to this topic. [/quote] Oh, this is a sheer pleasure but do not call that dirt enemy. He is not enemy but way beyond it, he is the person about whom I have a death-wish as ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: And sure, you will do the experiments. by Romy the Cat on 2015-06-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Designing and building a 5 channel horn loaded (looking for ... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  73 Replies 
[quote user="kodomo"]In my first design, I kept them all in a vertical line. It had one channel less back then. When I added the 1" throat JMLC 1000, I decided, as the tweeter operates over 9.6k, the slight misalignment may not matter. Still, I k...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #367: The live without the YO186, again.... by Romy the Cat on 2009-09-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] After a few month of living with YO186 I think I know everything about this tube. I do not use the YO186 all time and I think the explanation why I do not use it all time would well describe what YO186 is and how I use...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #129: The Milq upperbass crossover. by Romy the Cat on 2014-12-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 6 Channel Version of Super Melquiades in Melquiades Amplifier  131 Replies 
[quote user="anthony"]Romy, I appreciate that this is an old thread now and that you may not remember everything from your time developing these amplifiers, but I have a (hopefully) simple question about the upperbass crossover in the schematic ab...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #36: Some thoughts about my New Macondo's Absolute Tone by Romy the Cat on 2006-08-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Adding one more spherical to Macondo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  92 Replies 
After the painstaking setting up of the new Macondo, measuring all distance, paralleling the horns and time-aligning everything, after the setting up a correct level of the new channel’s attenuation (it turned out -2dB was necessary) I spent some tim...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #55: Wrong. by Romy the Cat on 2011-03-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s lowest channel. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  150 Replies 
Rakesh, I think you take it all wrong and I think you need to perform some degaussing from my site. You created for yourself a cardboard cutout of ideas that I describe at my site but it is not what it is. Macondo Axioms are not set of rules but a di...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #83: 500-1200Hz range by Romy the Cat on 2015-09-14 
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"] So, driver for 1200hz down is under consideration.I'm going to try 2453, 2451, 2490 and Supravox 12" for this range.I've ordered 200hz LeCleach from AutoTech with 6" throat to try 12" Supravox for the 300-1200hz range.A...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: I'm good for now.... by Romy the Cat on 2006-12-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo Frame modification. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  46 Replies 
Yes, Paul you are right. In my chaise for “cosmetics” the economic aspect jumped out of my aim. The last design would require 6 panes for a par of the loudspeakers it is might be pricey. McMaster quotes a steel panel of 3/8” by 6” by 8” somewhere nea...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: Tractrix vs. Exponential curve for lower frequencies. by Romy the Cat on 2007-08-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Jessie Dazzle Project in Horn-Loaded Speakers  172 Replies 
[quote user="guy sergeant"]One issue that I would consider is that the Tractrix profile supposedly does not lend itself aswell to extremely low frequency horns (being too short) as other profiles in particular the Hypex (Salmon) shape. [/quote] Yep,...
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