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In the Forum: Horn-Loaded Speakers
In the Thread: Battling stupid Horn Criticism as a concept

Post Subject: Audio Crap from acoustic instrumentsPosted by rowuk on: 11/24/2012

Romy,
I could not agree more! The only reason that I mention it is because we do see enough speakers with exactly these acoustic instrument problems: energy that leaks through the horn material, ringing from undamped material, wrong cutoffs (a trumpet uses the "wrong" cut off to make it resonate). I have found that the words to explain how musical instruments work are valuable to explain design mistakes for audio. I have experimented with glass, steel, wood, carbon fiber, lead and ceramic trumpet bells too.

One of the most important musical instrument discoveries for me was bracing. Here we solder or screw connectors from one part to another. The results are so profound and few artisans understand this. The bracing can transmit or damp vibration. String instruments also implement bracing in the form of a sound post ( http://www.violins.on.ca/luthier/soundpost.html ). I think that there could be some advantages to looking over the edge of the audio plate to find techniques perhaps useful for audio.

Thank you for the explanation on "Hairs and Hardening". It is very interesting to get the original context.

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