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In the Forum: Horn-Loaded Speakers
In the Thread: If you were to start from scratch, what horn system would you build?
Post Subject: Comparison between the radiating areas.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 2/16/2012
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 haralanov wrote:
Come ooon, comparison between the radiating area of direct radiator vs. the area of horn’s mouth is too amateurish even for some diyaudio.com level simpletons…
It is as naïve as saying Leonardo’s Mona Lisa is simply 100 grams of paint splashed over a 630 sq inch sheet of paper…:-)
Not necessarily. When you were talking about upperbass more freely flow in the space that you did described the consequences of more gentile change of pressure between open air and radiating surface.  As you begin to grow amount of drivers in case of direct radiators then you experience multitude of advancement and one of them losing boundary pressure between air and cone on each driver. So, from this perspective the comparison between radiating areas is very much variable characteristic. Remind you that horn not only does that but it performs acoustic transformation gradually. I did heard direct radiator drivers and I am well informed what kind benefits one can get from multiplication of drivers. Horns is completely different animal and you need to educate your with upperbass horn sound. Initially I thought you were taking about horn as it was the subject of the thread but only later I recognized that you talk about horn only in hypothetical terms.  So, as the person who do deal with horns I do admit that with multiplication of horns per channel you will have benefits but the benefits will be less significant than those that you observe with direct radiators, which bring the whole idea to very questionable viability or even need (with horns). Again, in your idea I feel that you have primary benefit from multiplication of drivers, not prom the drivers positioning. I leave aside the options to multi-amp and to tune individual driver – no one would argue that it might be beneficial.

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