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noviygera wrote:

And one last thing for now I'd like to ask you. Would you know of a builder in the USA that can design the horn based on my requirements so that I do not attempt to be a horn designer? I can get the design built locally.

Herman,  I am not exactly understand what kind upper bass you would like to get. Not that I need to but it looks like if you have your hart set then it is good. I do like that you think about your future upper bass channel as a complete package with respect to the existing channels.

Anyhow, you are looking for a person who would help you with design of your horn. It would be all depends from what kind help you need. I do not know if you looking for basic geometry of your design or if you need the detailed bulling plan. In case you need both, that in my estimation what you need then do not deal with online idiots who like to run mouth about horn but never build anything themselves or never made anything to sound respectably positive. You need somebody who has experience with materials, building methods results, intellectual and cultural capacity to interpret result and who will be able to give you further recommendation after the horn are built and you will be trying to make it to sound appropriate. Just from the top of my head her are a few named right here in US:

Bruce Edgar from California. He is pretty much a Godfather of horn building in States for our generation and he is incredibly experienced person who will be able to accommodate any service you require. The minor problem that you might have with Bruce is that quite many of his past and present customers are or retarded idiot of bottom-eating white trashes and as a result many of the Bruce’s “designs” and ideas are structured for much more simplistic and cheaper implementation then it shell be. Do not be fooled by frugality and stinginess of Bruce ideas. He knows very well what and how the things need to be done, he has perfect ability to understand sound and if you slightly multiply and make more expensive the implementation of his design and recommendation then you will hardly find any more qualified consultant.

John Hasquin from Tennessee or Kentucky, I am not sure where he lives now. John is quite unique person in my estimation: he has a lot of practical building experience, great ability to understand and to interpret results and in the same time he for some reason does like to waste his time with internet idiots of DIYAudio.com level. John will be able to consult you in all aspects of your project and I very much HOW he interact, approach and flow up with problems. You can find him shepherding Morons at DIYAudio.com and I do advise to pay attention to his online output.

Jeffrey Jackson from Tennessee or Arkansas, I am not sure where exactly he lives. Jeffrey is another representative of next generation of horn makers and I do like his thinking and his “making”. Jeffrey among all have tendency to go for off the beaten past projects. So, if you are trying to go for something “dangers” then Jeffrey might be your partner. From my conversations with Jeffrey I feel that is very intelligent in Sonic language not to mention the building know-how and he might be another perfect candidate for your project.

I would like to note that any of the mentioned people are no-nonsense and no BS-type of people. You need to have very strong sense what you want to do and do some of your home work in order to form objective for those people in the format that would make them beneficial to you. Do not dump to them your general frustrations but be specific what you know, what you are trying to accomplish, what you do not know and what you expectations from their services might be. BTW, it is high likely that they might build the things for you as well and this would be much more preferably then your local builder who never dealt with Sound.

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