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In the Forum: Horn-Loaded Speakers
In the Thread: Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time.

Post Subject: My midbass project: what I do not like.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 6/18/2010

I still do not know if it will be doing at in my attic and I already bitch that I do not like something. Well, it is me…

Considering the cost, objectives and the level how my midbass horn will be implemented (if they will) one could feel that it will be some kind of ultimate solution. Yes, hope for the type of the driver and for the bandwidth I intend to use it will be as good solution as it would get. In addition it will be some amazingly unavailable characteristics – be time aligned and be invisible in the room. Presumably that it will be built properly then will this solution be something that I feel absolutely comfortable? I would say not and I would like to name a few problems that I see with my ultimate solution.

I am wild about the triangular shape of the horn. I am OK with triangular mouth but I do not know if I like the triangular rest of the horn. Sure I will calculate the surface area triangular transition but I still am not crazy about it. I would be much more comfortable with pentagon, on fact I am thinking to run pentagon to 2/3 of the horn and then do transition to triangular mouth. No matter what I might do it will be not as elegant as I would like it to be.

In my triangular horn one side will be flat, it mean the curve will be written but two other side of the triangle. I guess it is fine but it is not what I would like it to be – it will be fun to have symmetric horn, even though in midbass it might be irrelevant.

I very much do not like the fact the midbass source from left and right will be so close located. I would be MUCH more welcomed to the idea of “right left” position of the midbass horns. Sure, then they will be VERY visible if the area time-aligned and it will annul the invisible objectives of my project… but it would sound much more interesting from imaging perspective.

I very much do not like that the midbass source will be INSIDE of the MF islands. This is a major violation of my Macondo Acxioms and I am not happy about it. I am considering making the negative tilt to the horns but I do not know how it will be effective.

They are the few things juts on specks that I do not like in my midbass project. The only contra-argument I have is concealment of the perspective midbass horn in my room decor. But to say honestly, if I look in the very depth of my soil then there is a light of hope trembling in there. The hope is that my carpenter would give me the bad news that the midbass horn might not be built in attic. This would force me to find other location for my midbass… and I hopefully to make it with less audio compromises. Sure it will be uglier then and it will make my home to look much more nerdy then it is… I want it and I do not.

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