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In the Forum: Horn-Loaded Speakers
In the Thread: Good midbass is complicated, if not unobtainable.
Post Subject: Still the best solution for me...Posted by speedysteve on: 2/21/2014
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 Macman wrote:
 Rewind wrote:
Macman: Maybe your tapped horns were too small. Speedysteve is absolutely in love with his, and you and him have a very similar setup with your 15" upper midbass horn and all.



Yes, Im sure you could make them better. I believe I was a little greedy when I designed them. I think I should have settled with a 10Hz higher cutoff. I have heard two tapped horns and they both have that the same issues that I wrote about above. As Romy stated of course it might be the room but I wont go back to Tapped horns, been there... moving on

/Marcus

I have found that 8th order X/O works best with them and I cross at 90Hz these days.  4th order is ok but you get minor colourations and some bleed through that just aren't a distraction on 8th order. The bass horn takes over form there and it gels very well for me. I also found them unusable in an average UK sized room without a couple of PEQ corrections to fix room modes / tune to my taste.  Once done, the bass weight, speed / impact and depth are to my liking.  regards, Steve

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