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In the Forum: Horn-Loaded Speakers
In the Thread: How to USE “Resonating Oops” in loudspeakers
Post Subject: The single driver setPosted by Paul S on: 2/28/2007
Maybe no other hi-fi group has thought more about the cabinet's contribution to sound than the single-driver crowd. Many of them like the "immediacy", "integrity" and "purity" of the single driver sound so much that they endlessly hunt for ways to mitigate the single driver's limitations with enclosures that are meant to contribute to the sound they hear. Not just horns, but Helmholtz boxes, etc., and you may also have heard of the Japanese Broadcating Diatone "double" enclosure. I am sure you know of the many British "BBC" speakers that "use" their boxes, but maybe all these ideas warrant another look in this new context you are trying to fill in, having already framed it.
I don't know if you have heard the (British) Harbeth 40 "monitor", but this is actually a pretty good speaker. This speaker might be a good example to study because it is very "accurate" over its range in terms of "voicing", despite/because it also employs a "cabinet factor". In other words, the Harbeth 40 is interesting in the context of this discussion because it is somehow "more accurate" than other "cabinet colored" speakers. Of course efficiency is fairly low, but still perhaps worthy of further investigation.
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Paul SRerurn to Romy the Cat's Site