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In the Forum: Horn-Loaded Speakers
In the Thread: Canadian Speaker Proposal

Post Subject: Knowledge TreePosted by de charlus on: 6/28/2013

Dear All,

Thank you all for your assistance, especially Romy, whose information has been particularly interesting. I have been in contact with Jeffrey Jackson, with whom I have discussed my driver preferences, and arrived at what is essentially only a theoretical starting point in terms of drivers and X-over points;

Lower Bass 160Super 15-100hz
Upper Bass Vitavox AK151 100-500hz
Mid Vitavox S2 500-2000hz
Upper Mid 45Super 2000-8000hz
Acapella 8000hz+

Such X-over points would appear to address some of the concerns that have been raised above, but all remains to be seen when things commence. As I said, this is but a hypothetical starting point. Jeffrey apparently is working on an installation in Northern New York State at present, making it a more practical concern for him to work n Toronto; he too regards my project as "interesting", but this is not to suggest that some or all of my driver preferences will not change in the future, since I did illuminate him as to how it was that I arrived at these notional preferences. He is perfectly happy not only to design appropriate horns to mate with such drivers, but also 5-way crossovers and DSETs for each channel, although I myself had particular commercial SETs in mind, then to be modified appropriately. Anyway, I will keep updates coming when the project commences; I am working on a "real work" project for the next few months that will prevent me from commencing any assembly/testing work on this system until approximately the end of summer/beginning of fall, but I thought that it might take this long to obtain and take receipt of the drivers, that is if I elect to go this route. Jeffrey himself is also engaged for the next few months; he has had to actually move house in order to work on the aforementioned project.
Etiquette prevents me from attempting to wangle an invitation to listen to Romy's Macondo system, since this to my mind is not how invitations are come by; in any case, as I said, I have doubts as to the usefulness of listening to however wonderful a system wherein inordinate variables different to those found within my own residence/system are to be found. Secondly, I am engaged in a work project for the next few months which prevents me from traveling to anywhere aside from L.A. for more than a Saturday/part of Sunday, a tall order when the redoubtable Macondo is to be found in Boston.
Romy, in answer to your question, I am prepared to do pretty much whatever's necessary to attain what I want here; as will have become obvious, the majority of the actual, physical work will not be performed by myself, and since my chief leisure pursuit has been, for perhaps the last twenty-five years, concert-going, not only in North America but in Europe, an investment of time and money commensurate with the immense pleasure that I derive from this seems to me reasonable. And as I said, if learning opportunities present themselves in the process - and they undoubtedly will - so much the better, even if it takes many years. It is not as if I will be without music in the meantime; I still have my "little" system to fall back upon.

de Charlus

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