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In the Forum: Horn-Loaded Speakers
In the Thread: Midbass Horns and Real Estate.

Post Subject: Bagel Sandwich Roof hornPosted by Saturntube on: 1/31/2010

I am not and expert in wood construction, all the building we do around here is brick and mortar, but, If you get the Horn wall close to the roof you could fill that space up with that spray expanding foam. The side of the Mid bass horn will be stiff enough, I would guess you could not make it less than 3/4" thick, you shouldn't have a big vibration problem, and in the case you have it you could reinforce it where necessary once it shows its weakness. I am using a 30 hz tapped horn at the moment and it sounds pretty good, I get excellent dynamics with almost no effort on the horn, one side was disconnected and I couldn't notice it by touching the horn sides, I had to stick my head in the hole to notice it (of course the sound stage was wrong) but my point is I have not a big vibrating surface with them, and they do rattle the windows in my brick and mortar house...Now if you wanted to make a concrete floor on your new house I guess you would only need to reinforce the floor from the bottom with some of the methods already discussed here, and then just place a thick wire mesh on top of the wooden floor and pour concrete on top of that.

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