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In the Forum: Horn-Loaded Speakers
In the Thread: Good midbass is complicated, if not unobtainable.
Post Subject: Horses for coursesPosted by speedysteve on: 2/21/2014
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 Romy the Cat wrote:
 speedysteve wrote:
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.

Hm, the 8th order high-pass X/O mixed with low pass upper bass horn? This is very strange. I do not know the taped horn’s upper knee character but from what you do, suffocating the uppperbass’s upper bass it does not sound that taped horn is too pretty.

Well, I think it is horses for courses and the tapped horns are a bit of a different gigi.     I found it is imperative to suffocate the rubbish that is coming out of tapped horns above say 100Hz - mine are sized to work from around 20Hz to 90Hz. Below this there is great bass deep bass to be had - well at least I like it.      The mid bass / upper bass I do not use such a slope. 2nd order on the upper knee of my bass at 330Hz and same for the lower knee of the mid horns. Above that I like 2nd order and then on the upper mids and tweeter 1st order. That is the current set.
    regards,  Steve

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