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In the Forum: Horn-Loaded Speakers
In the Thread: Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time.
Post Subject: The invisible Cheshire horns.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 9/29/2010
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| Is there no way to smooth out the visible steps in the latter part of the horn's expansion or would you prefer not to? |
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This is very interesting one. Yes, there is a way to smooth out the visible horizontal steps. The hors seen is very thick behind the steps and a running belt sander with coarse surface will get rid of the steps. My estimate is that it will take 3-4 hours per horn, including the finishing of the jointing chords between the vertical wall and top/bottom of the horn. That was my initial intend and I did not do it juts because I did not have before the horn lifting. I just smoothed then a bit but I did not get rid of them. I figured that there is an access to the steps from a stepladder and I thought that if I would like to do it then I will do it with the horns installed.
After the horn got hoisted I frankly do NOT feel any inducement to deal with the steps. Under normal circumstances the steps are hardly visible with normal lights in my room. The picture above is made with strong fluorescent lights installed on the SIDE ridges of the cathedral ceiling. This side lighting emphasizes the steps but I hardly ever use this lighting in my room as it is too bright – 32x40W elements, I use it only for room cleaning. Now, the funny part is that I kind of turn to like the steps as I do like how the light divide itself on the shaded on each step. So, I am willing to keep the steps as it for now and see how it goes.
One thing that I would mention is that in this thread we pay attention to the horn but if you in my room you would hardly notice them. I have the former house owner stop by another day we maintain a good relationship and she visit me occasionally. She lived in here for over 25 years or so, she built the cathedral ceiling from scratch and standing in the room she did not recognize that the wall have horn in it. She saw that I do some construction in the room but until I pointed her attention to the horns she did not acknowledge them. The room is interesting – all attention is kind of “forced” to the opposite side of the room and there is truly not need to look back at the triangular wall. The triangular wall is truly a dream location for my horns and again – I am very glad that I did not finish them in any more attention-grabbing manner.
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