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

Post Subject: Some idea of what will happenPosted by Saturntube on: 2/5/2010

Similar experience but I get to keep my "old" room. I have just changed my 5 way horn loaded down to 140 hz speakers to a friends room twice as big as mine, with an open back area into the house as your new room has and one side and the front have huge glass windows, the horns have no trouble with a bigger room and soundstage is much better, tuning will be needed but the best improvement you will get will be the soundstage, instead of sitting in between the instruments you will be seating at the directors spot with the whole orchestra in front of you and way back, more as a normal concert hall, the instruments will be able to develop more freely and there will be more space between them, the trumpets will come from the back and the violins will appear closer, and the timbals will be way in the back there.Bass will be a problem, we are running SET for the horns, but the bass drivers are in a sealed cabinet with a couple of commercial sub amps and a pair of servo subwoofers for the lowest registers. My friend has a DCS combo as his main source and since the DCS has a volume control and a 6 volt output, we thought we could get away with out a preamp, but we could not. We added a preamp but it sort of loosed the magic in the mids, but the bass was better, at the moment we have the preamp hooked to the subamps only, and the DCS feeding the SET amps directly with a Y connector, we are not there yet but this has been the problem, loading the room with bass. Now, we dont have the woofer towers you have and we are already getting there, I guess you should give the woofer towers a chance, they might fill the room up to your expectations, but even if they do I am sure you will make the huge horns anyway!!

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