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Saturntube wrote:

Anyone has some sort of comparison between compression drivers against cone (dynamic) drivers in a this huge mid bass horns, or even upper bass horns.     All I heard are this guys from Germany with the out of reach expensive GOTO compression bass drivers and Johan with the JBL 2490 MF driver in his upperbass horns.   Anyone with WE 555 drivers?

Saturntube,

I kind of have an attitude toward all of those “out of reach expensive compression bass drivers”. The drivers are insanely important but the quality of the drivers does not eliminate a need to properly use them. Did you see a lot of properly made midbass horns? Did you see then properly integrated into playback? Did you see them time-aligned? Did you see them appropriately powered and crossovered? I have a feeling, and have many evidences, that in the cases people “admire horn bass sound” they are in reality “impressed” by driver’s time misalignment. I did model that sound and I do know what I am taking about. The proper “bass horn sound” is very interesting thing and in my estimate mostly not known by people. Even when people do construct more or less intelligent design then they run the midbass-horns too hard. Honestly, I do not impressed with WE, GOTO, RCA, or God know what else exotic drivers. I am impressed with exotic, well-indented and smart solutions. I do not see a lot of them out there. There are some interesting moves in different installation I saw but very few of them from my point of view do implement the midbass horns as interesting/offensive as they could be.

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