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In the Forum: Horn-Loaded Speakers
In the Thread: Tractrix Bass horn vs Spherical Wave Horn - Bass loading

Post Subject: Getting direction to where you need to goPosted by rowuk on: 7/5/2015

Dear blue,
I think that you are reading this site incorrectly.
Romy has done an incredible job of documenting his personal audio travels. Consider this site to be a diary in that respect. It has absolutely nothing to do with DIY, except perhaps as motivation to work on the purpose of our audio travels instead of a roadmap to some theoretical hardware solution. Sure he has spent a lot of time examining his own motivations and results. Much of this is documented here. I am convinced, even if someone duplicated Macondo/Melquiades, the results would be different, perhaps not even satisfactory sound. Most do not know what to do with Bruckner sound.......
It makes no sense to discuss flare rate or calculations from some software as there is no correlation between the math and SOUND. All of those tools only give you "pressure" curves devoid of any sonic behavior. This is perhaps useful to plan how much wood that you need......
If you are interested in Midbass horns, search for them here. There are several interesting threads by people that have built them (including Romy) and documented the results. There are several threads about integration of different horns. After reading them, the nature of questions changes quite a bit because the recipe changes from hardware to sound.
Good luck in your journey. Just about all of the answers are here but they most definitely are not a Bill Of Materials, rather a journey through time.

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