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In the Thread: The IDEAL horn system
Post Subject: Re: Uncoherent thoughts about IDEAL horn systems...Posted by slowmotion on: 12/11/2005
Hi
Some loose thoughts.....
A system where each amp-driver-horn-room interface are designed to work together as a unit in their respective frequency bandpass...
They each have to be optimized to work in their respective bandpass,
but at the same time we would have to combine them into a functional system.
The horn should ideally load the driver uniformly in the passband.
The horn-driver combination should ideally be designed to be used only
in the least reactive part of the passband, which realisticly would mean
that we would probably have to set the crossover 1 to 2 octaves higher than the horn cutoff frequency.
To keep the distortion low, the passband would probably have to be restricted
to 2-3 octaves per horn.
It would be nice if we could find a way to make the horisontal dispersion
as uniform as possible through the frequency range for the whole system.
We would have to find a way to compensate for the different length of the bass and treble horns, since the system would probably end up as 4 or 5 way.
The system should be able to reproduce sound levels up to at least 120dB
in the listening room without strain uniformly from 20 to 20K Hz .
As i said ; this is just some loose thoughts from the top of my head.
Feel free to comment or critisize 
cheers
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