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In the Forum: Horn-Loaded Speakers
In the Thread: Canadian Speaker Proposal

Post Subject: Copying the Masters?Posted by N-set on: 6/25/2013

de Charlus,

I have been chewing on +/- similar ideas (broadly speaking: what is a chance and how to make an advanced horn acoustic system
from a scratch with zero prior experience), but unlike you, I'm not yet on the level of seriously starting it due to various constraints.
As far as I understand this is your 1st acoustic system attempt, at least with horns, right? If so, may I ask you if you have considered
following the path of known working solutions instead of jumping directly into the muddy waters of an original design?
E.g. why not blatantly copy Macondo, learn how it works, and then try to proceed on your own path from there?
I'm asking because after some theoretizing on the subject myself, reading Olson, studying known designs, and performing all other typical
intellectual masturbations (with no connection to the Sound obviously), I realized I'd be very much lost, even before I reach
anything close to the Sound, without a solid
reference point: an example I could learn how it works. Please do not treat it as a suggestion or discouragement,
I'm simply asking out of pure curiosity. It is so in science and in arts that apprentices start by copying their favourite Masters.

Cheers,
N-set

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