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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: The EML tube, the different amplification and the shredded RAAL by Romy the Cat on 2008-01-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: My (Amplification + Acoustic System): what is next? in Audio Discussions  41 Replies 
[quote user="JJ Triode"]Romy, take a look at EML 30A and its cousins: http://www.emissionlabs.com/datasheets/EML20B.htm [/quote] Yep, thanks, JJ. Still the EML 30A has a lot of gain but it has also very high plate impedance as well. As much gain w...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #146: Two "diseases" by tuga on 2010-05-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy The Cat's new Listening Room in Audio Discussions  478 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]  unicon wrote: el 0l if you could understand the basics about how audio waves especially bass range acts in closed space you wouldnt even bring the name Bass EQit just cures the sound pressure in a single spot(listener)...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #58: Listening help with ULF stimulator by Romy the Cat on 2011-03-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s lowest channel. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  150 Replies 
[quote user="oxric"] If the issue is merely to recreate a better sense of the live performance….[/quote]It might be not “recreate a better sense of the live performance” but rather to be able to administer in my own and deliberate way some “listening...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #349: Good signs by jessie.dazzle on 2010-10-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  455 Replies 
Excellent news regarding this morning's discoveries. jd wrote:"...Are you able to say whether the problem is due to the horn position relative to the room, or to throat diameter relative to the driver diameter?..."Yes, a stupidly phrased question, bu...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #249: I do not like it this arguing ... by Romy the Cat on 2017-11-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A listening room for a domesticated Cat? in Audio Discussions  283 Replies 
If you think that I am not an idiot then read further.  I have been looking at my Macondo calibration check sheet above and I have that stupid itch in my brain that scream to me: “ Romy, my God, the two drivers in own sealed enclosure at the left c...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #107: Get the balance right by drdna 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 
[quote user="Paul S"]it seems like a miracle that two people familiar with the score could recognize "it" and agree on it, via any sort of playback whatsoever ... we tend to focus (more or less) on the parts we recognize as Music. [/quote][quote user...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #231: How about the tweeter? by Romy the Cat on 2009-04-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
I have to admit that although the Macondo “Water Drop Tweeter” sounds very good but I do not have that “shocking sound” that I got from the “Water Drop” during my initial introduction to it. I kind of always felt it and I thought that I get use t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #389: Hm, that was so simple after all! by Romy the Cat on 2011-04-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
I put the YO186 back to the use. The sound was fine but it had that a fine over glow of spoiled fall colors that I described before. It was not disgusting, in fact pleasurable but a bit too much. Then I asked to myself what happen and why this...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Good one by anthony on 2021-08-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Some thoughts about bass in high-end audio. in Audio Discussions  4 Replies 
Thanks for this one Romy, very interesting...it sorta ties together several things that I have been thinking about lately.  I guess I am lucky that the Bass Cannons can be run off 9w from the DSET bottom channel and from memory I get about 115dB at 1...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #209: The new MF channel. by Romy the Cat on 2009-03-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
Today is a “special” day in the subject of this thread – today the last waited piece of the projects – the inner-stage transformer will be shipped to me and I will have no more impediments to render the project.  However, the intricacy of the pr...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: The most astonishing amplifier ever. by Romy the Cat on 2017-12-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The remarkable moments in Audio. in Audio Discussions  16 Replies 
I was promising to tell stories of my audio miracles with no order of chronology or importance, so here is another one. I think it was in 2002-2003. I was transitioning from Lamm amplifications to Melquiades and was contemplating to introduce a DH...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #327: More HF from a transformer and DHT? by Romy the Cat on 2009-06-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
I found an interesting flow in the sound of my current OPTS and while it will be certified I am experimenting with park of amorphous core transformers that left over from my former projects. I am trying to remap my Tribute but it is just 40mA. It...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #29: The new room, the very first listening. by Romy the Cat on 2010-04-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy The Cat's new Listening Room in Audio Discussions  478 Replies 
Connected today Melquiades and Macondo in new room. Macondo uses drivers as they are – no time or axis aliments of any kind yet, no Insertion Channels, no level calibration by channels. I just in-phase the channels and sat to listen, to see what happ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: "Zaratustra II" to drive Macondo’s bass? by Romy the Cat on 2007-03-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: "Zaratustra II" to drive Macondo’s bass? in Audio Discussions  3 Replies 
I was yesterday drawing plans for the Zaratustra II’s chassis and was wondering how I might use it. The Zaratustra II turned out to be a little Monster, efforts-wise and expanses-wise. I hope it will demonstrate some results that will rectify the eff...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: I think it all depends of context. by Romy the Cat on 2012-05-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Why I hate computer playback. in Didital Things  17 Replies 
Thanks. Rony. I will certainly try the iTune, Linn channel and the rest of them. My opinion about them worth little as the “quietly” is always in context of… context. It is absolutely not arguable that 320kbps, or any other kbps steam for this ma...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #95: Will new Fane bring anything new? by Romy the Cat on 2011-04-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Bye-Bye, Fane in Horn-Loaded Speakers  108 Replies 
[quote user="Jorge"]I guess it would be simple enough to add a couple of inches in order to bring the throat down to 4" in order to try the Studio 8M.  I have already reduced it temporarily to 3" in order to try the JBL 2490h compression driver. ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #392: YO186 vs. type 45. by Romy the Cat on 2012-05-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
[quote user="floobydust"] Been a long time since I've been on the fora... too much real work, too much travel. Still, nice to see this particular thread resurrected. I'm interested to see if you have revisited the 45 since more than a year ago. I sti...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: The system is sounding these days… by Romy the Cat on 2008-05-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo – Super Melquiades: few months later. in Melquiades Amplifier  10 Replies 
[quote user="Paul S"]OK, I'll be the one who breaks down and asks:  Romy, please share about how the system is sounding these days. I figured you had your hands full with channels integration and balancing, but as I recall you did have one Chan...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #235: Eventually, the new reference sweat spot is found. by Romy the Cat on 2010-10-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy The Cat's new Listening Room in Audio Discussions  478 Replies 
I spent today good 5 hours listening my new playback. For somebody who do not know me it would look idiotic to listen the playback with such a huge amount of problems and do not make any efforts to correct them. Defiantly the problems are huge: the m...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: A Cable for Bass? I wish I would know a right cable by Romy the Cat on 2010-02-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Wiring for box speakers? in Audio Discussions  1 Replies 
 Miab, since what I became an expert in cables? I am as much as anyone else – a subject of accidental discovering... I do not use in Injection Channel any fancy cables. There is not a lot of need for it.  The Injection Channel is mixed with M...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #154: Stop! by Romy the Cat on 2010-05-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy The Cat's new Listening Room in Audio Discussions  478 Replies 
OK, I decided to stop today to do what I do as it does not feel like me anymore. For a month as I live in here and have the playback up my playback is a source of great pain and I do not like it.  I am accustomed that I turn the thing on and USE it. ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #13: “Why do I need all those technical manuals?” - Amuse to Death by Roge... by Romy the Cat on 2009-01-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Aporia - Silbatone Acoustics speaker in Horn-Loaded Speakers  107 Replies 
Joe, I personally very much disagree with my own comment that for two people objectively assess a speaker would be possible ONLY with two parties are sitting in the same room and listening to the same installation. I did propose it as a “remedy” in ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #43: Speaker cables by anthony on 2017-10-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Deep End DIY - Australian take one Macondo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  87 Replies 
I've been thinking about how I am going to wire these Bass Cannons as well as the horns on the horn stack.  For some time now I have preferred ribbon/foil speaker cables for the relatively low sensitivity speakers I have been using.  The reason I bel...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: About new powering of Macondo's MF by DHT by Romy the Cat on 2009-02-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Entereing the "Design Mode" in Playback Listening  6 Replies 
“Forever! That must be fully comprehended,” whispered the Master, and he licked his dried, cracked lips. He begun to listen carefully and pay close attention to everything that was happening in his soul. His excitement, it seemed to him, had turned i...

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 #4: Upper-bass horns and current measurement. by boiklox on 2014-01-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: JBL 2226 2445 2405 3-way and a path forward in Horn-Loaded Speakers  27 Replies 
Romy,Your Macondo system is something that has been a "role model" for what I'd like my playback system to be in the coming years. And much of what I've learned about horn playback systems I've learned from reading your writing and other posts on thi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #37: Knowledge Tree by de charlus on 2013-06-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Canadian Speaker Proposal in Horn-Loaded Speakers  56 Replies 
Dear All,Thank you all for your assistance, especially Romy, whose information has been particularly interesting. I have been in contact with Jeffrey Jackson, with whom I have discussed my driver preferences, and arrived at what is essentially only a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Back to the imaging of the fifth wheel. by Romy the Cat on 2006-05-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Adding one more spherical to Macondo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  92 Replies 
Actually Goto does not have default 5-6-7 way systems. I have seen that they recommend 4 ways systems. Definably in the fields the dealer and distributor load their ignorant customers with as much drivers as possible selling them 55 ways systems.&nbs...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Macondo and not only Macondo positioning by Romy the Cat on 2006-08-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo Alternation. Extending the LF line-array in Horn-Loaded Speakers  8 Replies 
[quote user="Ronnie"]I'm curious about how you set up your horns in the room.From photos it looks as if they are fairly close together, compared to the wide setting you suggested I try, while our room dimensions are fairly similar?When I started push...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #219: I absolutely love it. by Romy the Cat on 2010-10-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy The Cat's new Listening Room in Audio Discussions  478 Replies 
I stopped by today in a local warehouse and picketed a 4x 16” fiber pipes and 2 two 20”. I absolutely love the effect. As soon I brought the tubes to the room and took the cover off in the hall room turned to be much quieter at HF. I did not expect t...
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