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In the Forum: Horn-Loaded Speakers
In the Thread: Battling stupid Horn Criticism as a concept
Post Subject: Great answer still pending...Posted by Axel on: 8/4/2009
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Paul,
I'm with you waiting for a bit more enlightenment and less rhetoric on the subject. As you stated if e.g. a Bass reflex does certain things wrong there are some known 'recipes' / fixes to try, and some will work.
We would want to utilize a upper bass horn in our next project but I'm afraid this might not work out properly with maths and rhetoric alone.
 
Of course we could opt for the “long cut” do the maths, and go through the hole witch-craft, try, fiddle, and patch to exhaustion and end up where you got so far.
Not a very promising notion.
As I said earlier, boxy sound, standing waves in enclosures, port chuffing, lack of black-hole wave launch, leaking enclosure, ~ wrong port resonance, and, and, and, can be fixed to a ‘reasonable degree’.  (Romy I guess would call it ‘fixed’ only good for Audio-Moron TM)
If a horn sounds like a PA system I think you can fix NOTHING but chuck it, and make another one.
And again a horn either works (I do hope so) or it doesn’t work AT ALL, and then it can sound offensive to the highest degree that any other type of transducer can simply not match – at least in my experience.
So the question is: Does one actually want to play with such ‘poison snakes’?
Answer: Well, -- curiosity killed the cat.
Axel

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