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In the Forum: Horn-Loaded Speakers
In the Thread: JBL 2226 2445 2405 3-way and a path forward

Post Subject: A "proper" four or five-way system.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 1/16/2014

Danvprod,

I hope you understand that “proper four or five-way system” is some kind of Unicornnish type of animal and we could talk about it only abstractly. Still, since you have mentioned it – what and how are you trying to accomplish with your five-way objective? The reason I ask is because there are zillion ways to do it and they all would be different topologically, financially and hematologicaly.

Regardless your responses here are a few comment about your Dos:

I would not build any frame at this point, at least until you know exactly how many channels and what kind you would like to hang on the frame. The Midbass horn (or most likely an upper bass) is a great project, if it were up to me I would start anything from it as I consider it as the “foundation” of all system. The upper mid-range horn? This is complicated; way do you feel that you need it? You can slice another 22 channels but do you need them? I feel that the presence of a dedicated upper mid-range design from the type of MF driver you use. If your driver does not go over let say 5kHz then you might have another upper mid-range. So, make a final decision about your MF driver and see if you even need/want upper mid-range. Be advised that your preference to MF driver will fluctuate as you progress with your installation. The replacement of tweeter is not the tweeter’s subject. Find the MF driver that you like and THEN, only then find a tweeter that will be able to work with that MF driver. I do not know what you will be doing with bass and many bass channels you desired to make. For sure ports are garbage but if I were you I would not invest any efforts in Bass at this point. I would not think about amplification/crossovers at this point as well. You many times over will override the decision you made at this initial point. Have a good SET that you like with multiple taps in output transformer. That is all that you would need to start.

Rgs,
Romy The Cat

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