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Greg B wrote:

http://www.modernsolutions.com/artichoke/images/hornbwfront.jpg http://www.modernsolutions.com/artichoke/images/hornside.jpg http://www.modernsolutions.com/artichoke/images/horndan.jpg OK, here is my attempt at the big white trash sound! A really big front horn is tough to equal. I didn't see the point of flaring the bottom just to meet the ground plane, so this one was essentially 'cut in half'. Trying to equal the effortlessness of a big horn at home has been an ongoing challenge.This would not fit in my living room. It was fun to go inside. Felt as if you were swimming in a sea of music. FWIW, I agree about open baffles. Perhaps many people simply have not heard the benefits of controlled dispersion before, but OB have very low sensitivity and high distortion/excursion.

wonderful job, really the labor of love!

Interesting that my design that I was contemplating for myself was in a way similar to your, although was smaller of course. A couple years ago I have discovered that when I coupled a small sub-upperbass source at seiling but my upperbass horn to floor (all in the same vertical dimension) then I was able to “turn” my room with such a standing force that it was not even funny. I made many experiments trying to detect if it was juts an accident in my specific room and it looks like it worked in two other occasions. Therefore my design was to use of 50Hz horn, the exact replica of what you bult, only  make it flipped over 180 degree and attached to seiling. Sometimes I will go for it….

Regarding the open baffles you are very much correct: very few people heard well-controlled drivers. For many people out there the definition of speaker’s success is a situation when a driver’s cone trembles like a udder of 20-years old cow.

Rgs,
Romy the Cat

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