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In the Forum: Horn-Loaded Speakers
In the Thread: Idea of a 3way horn system
Post Subject: Re: bad Idea of a 3way horn systemPosted by Romy the Cat on: 10/26/2006
Angelo,

Although the idea might be looks like an “elegant” at a hi-fi shows but unfortunately it has a lot of pitfalls, the terminal pitfalls for my point of view. This is only my opinion but still:

1) LF channel- the bassmaxx. I never had or heard it and can hardly comment on it. There is a lot of noise and hype recently about the bassmaxx solution but all people who I meat who loved the bassmaxx drove their bassmaxx with Crown or Gemini amplifiers and listed pop music. So, I very mach predisposed against it, no mater now little it means.

2) The mid-bass Fane Crescendo 10M. This is complicated. The Fane drivers are very freaky – some of their models are good, some of them bad with any reasons or justifications. In addition any driver when you place it in mid-bass horn begins to sound different and the patters are not always obvious. Also, when you squeeze a driver with back chamber you have the driver begin to behave as “compression driver” and it changed the driver sound very dramatically.

3) The mid-bass horn. Any folded horn is not a horn but a sequence of wave guiding resonating chambers. I personally believe that the entire concept of horn, as it know today to audio people is fundamentally faulty. A horn is not a sensitively boosting machine or the pressure impedance transformer but an equalizer and equalizer only. Consider a horn as a Dolby decoder and from here it would be very obviously why no one should use the sequence resonating chambers to decode a Dolby encoded source or to write a RIAA curve…

4) “~ 600hz - 20khz” – whatever it was it does not exist.

5) The mounting of tweeter presumably inside of MF horn is bead idea: reflections, HF attenuation and so on…

6) Time alignment, it is a key in horn design… nothing further could be said.

Rgs, Romy

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