For me personally, midbass is the most important frequency range when it comes to sound reproduction. I believe you will be on the right track to focus on this range because so often it is overlooked and treated with superficial attention, as a "it's there somewhere" to be in the sound not too loud or boomy or obtrusive. But if we focus on this range and listen to it only, we will see that most of the emotion of sound resides there and around it, that is the tonality that makes the sound system special or vague.
I have been thinking about this region of sound and what if we start the system build with this step, what are the options? Has anyone done this and what were the observations of comparing different topologies. For example, here I see a few approaches, each specifically focusing on the midbass:
1. high efficiency: some well made horn around a single specific paper cone driver.2. high efficiency: some well made horn around a compression driver3. low efficiency: array (rectangular) of direct radiators, 6" or smaller drivers, let's say 30 drivers, as a point source4.
low efficiency: wrapped
array
of direct radiators forming a frame around the mid/high section (like a picture frame around a painting)
Has anyone compared the above midbass topologies?
Gera
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