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In the Forum: Horn-Loaded Speakers
In the Thread: If you were to start from scratch, what horn system would you build?

Post Subject: The main benefit is in the type of sound presentationPosted by haralanov on: 2/13/2012

Romy the Cat wrote:
...to hear it from a person who advocates a single driver approach :-)

Hahhaha, if you call the combination of 4x23” + 4x15” + 12”+ 8” +2” a single driver approach, then the people who really use single driver speakers should be called driverless :-)))

Romy, the actual sound benefit of this 4-channel upper bass configuration, is rather in the type of sound presentation. The commonly used single upper bass horn (or direct radiator) sitting under the midrange horn, gives the feeling that the midrange floats over a dense and soft upper bass cloud. It is in a way interesting effect, but it is much more interesting (at least in my view) when the upper bass radiating area is very big AND equally distributed around the midrange/main channel. This creates an effect of having huge and very widerange coaxial driver, which gives the unique feeling that the upper bass is real physical part of the midrange, loading the whole (!) room with tone. Actually it can no longer be detected as upper bass sound – it just becomes part of the instruments. And this is much more important than the fine tuning of the sound of all these 4 horns. Of course it is huge benefit to imply 4 slightly different UB tones combining in one very complex tone. And just like you said, one can use 4 slightly different amps for these 4 slightly different UB driver/horns for even more complex tone, so practically one can adjust thousands of variables…

Best regards,
Haralanov

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