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[quote user="Ronnie"]The next big problem with sound here I think is a difference in sound level between upper bass and MF/HF.Upper bass seems louder (and ought to be). Would you help this electronics-handicapped guy to pad down the upper bass horn w...
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Interesting. I wonder whether I actually did the Pussy- or Wilson positioning.I found 4 tiny hotspots around the whole room (for one specific vertical position). The boom areas were large (or perhaps there were many boom areas, close together?),...
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JD,In the case of the mid-bass horn, the throat transition does not affect the sound enough to worry about IMO. Due to the narrow bandwidth (100Hz - 1000Hz) the step transition between the woofer cone and horn throat is acoustically invisible. I...
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Since the 8M is now no longer to be had anywhere, for love or money (delighted to be contradicted on this), would people care to suggest alternatives for precisely the use Romy puts it to: driving a round, 3-4 inch throat, upper bass horn? I know it ...
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Romy wrote :"...And with 1600 pound per channel you might forget about the DPOLS … -..."No, 1600 lbs per channel would be really serious! 1600 lbs is the total combined weight of the Left and Right channels, with frames, (the frames turned ...
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I have been running around this design for a couple of months...I re-designed it just now to change some numbers according to your post. The main idea is to have a lot of posibilities in a huge horn:It is formed by conical sectors th...
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Romy,
Here's the link to the McCauley 6174 specs...
http://www.mccauleysound.com/product_specifications.cfm?ID=126
In considering your comments on the necessity of a 115 Hz Upper Bass horn : You make a good point...
Your quote : "...If you ...
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I've been having love/hate relationship with Lowther (and its siblings) for several years now. As you all say, it has many problems to use as a full-ranger. Right now, my set up is a 3way multi-amp, Lowther (Reps 1) in Medallion cabi...
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How did you determine that it is the horn. What makes you think that you can damp a horns mouth at 200 Hz. Have you never read what a room does to frequencies under 400 Hz? If not, check this site out: http://amroc.andymel.euMaxx, I think that you ar...
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[quote user="Jorge"]Andrew,Dont buy all the drivers at once, I would get only the upper bass horn drivers and maybe the mid drivers, you will have to play around with these for a while before things start clicking toghether, by then who knows, ma...
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The Delta Pro-8B looks like a very fine driver, in fact on the paper it is even better then Fane (with exception of sensitivity and inductance) The problem is that no one knows how this driver will sound until it is loaded into a specific horn, no o...
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I still remember proposed solution for symetrical TAD 1201 horn loaded midbass sections. Was it to free listener from sweet spot low seat position ? I could imagine that that midbass horn performing up to 1000Hz sitting low on the floor would impair&...
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Romy wrote :"...do not forget that if you made the dramatic-enough angling then in order to preserve methodological purity of experiment you need to attenuate slightly the angled horn and it will most likely output more dBs to a listener located on a...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]The Tax’s shoes bring a few very interesting points. The Cat[/quote]Tax's COGNITIVE ORDER OF SUCCESSION has continued in silence in a land downunder.Today after a period of more than two years Tax returns to this forum hav...
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I understand your recommendation and agree. I need to have upper bass and MF and than see how to merge fundamental channel in between.So, I better postpone experiments with compression drivers and only compare 12" Supravox in two horns: 42Hz 2m long ...
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[quote user="Jorge"] Once you have an Upper Bass Horn working properly with a good driver inside it, and getting at least 6 db extra output out of the loading (I just wrote about 2 pages of technical difficulties on this but let’s just stick to the s...
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Here are some photos of Martin Sedon's 204Hz and 340Hz Le Cleac'h horns, which likely have more reasonable shipping charges and fit through doorways, etc. better than the 160Hz version. They have a T-factor (expansion rate) of T = 0.8, which was reco...
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I gave another run to Vitavox S2 with electromagnet and while I was listening I come across to an interesting observation. I screw the S3 in 330Hz horn and was trying to run it with 500Hz crossover point. It is pretty standard configuration, the way ...
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Hi Romy,
Well firstly on those, the tweeter is not offset to one side - it appears to be time aligned directly behind the midrange horn and upper bass unit. Secondly, that's a JBL 2405....
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Jessie, there is another solution that you might consider, that might be viewed as compromise for one-side as might not be view is compromised from other side. If to allowed ourselves to close eyes to midbass timing-integration and if the geography o...
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Herman, I am glad that you feel better about sound from your midbass horns. I do not know what damage digital amps incur but even your experience of hating the sound of those horns to falling in love with them just after changing the amp do suggests ...
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This subject of digital crossovers became quite popular during last few years and many audio-people give up and go for a simplicity and painlessness of digital crossovering. There is an army of people out there who would swear by a complete transpare...
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I mean,
does anyone really expect to straight away come up with a "horn
profile" via math (or voodoo) and then just turn or cast it, bolt on
the driver and, voila?If we talking about upper-bass horn I think yes, via match.I reade...
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[quote user="Dresden"]I'm a new reader of your website and one subject which interests me a lot is that of upper bass horns.
As you have noted time and again (with which I agree almost completely, after reading a lot of 'research' [many claiming to ...
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Romy wrote : "...The horns that you made are elegant and graceful but painted in glossy black with that very rough structure I feel they are less attractive. The texture surface is good but I think that the sophistication of the epoxy-sand mix i...
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[quote user="Merlin"]Well firstly on those, the tweeter is not offset to one side - it appears to be time aligned directly behind the midrange horn and upper bass unit. Secondly, that's a JBL 2405.[/quote]I do not know which driver the Living Voce us...
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The following link will take you to images showing my construction method for small to medium-sized horns (click on the images... to view the explanations) : http://s172.photobucket.com/albums/w3/jessie-dazzle/400Hz%20Tractrix%20Horn/ Since these are...
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Antonio,
Bruce Edgar sells an excellent all front-loading horn system, the Titan, which works well in small rooms. He will sell you unfinished horns, and you can find/buy the drivers yourself if you are a DIY guy, or on a budget. Considering the...
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[quote user="skushino"] • total horn length (incl. back chamber) shall not exceed 1,00m • the horn shall have conical approximation of a hyperbolic flare contur with m=0.6 • the horn shall have a 5/16 mouth size of a free space horn •&...
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[quote user="Jorge"] Lets just say that TH bass is much cleaner and generates a different "bass sensation" in the room. Once you get used to it, it is very difficult to go back to boxed bass.I find the sound similar to what a Mid bass horn woud pla...
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