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In the Forum: Horn-Loaded Speakers
In the Thread: Short midbass horns
Post Subject: Short midbass hornsPosted by noviygera on: 5/16/2019
I used to have Edgar 80hz straight horns and this was my only experience with short midbass horns. I did not like them in my system and sold them. Lately, I have been wondering about these designs in general and is there such a thing as a good sounding short mb horn? What I like about this concept is the time alignment that is possible with the midrange horn of similar length but other than that, what is the idea behind such a concept and is there an optimal application for them?

All I understand is that it is not a true horn but more like a waveguide for the midrange so in this case it should have a slight advantage over direct radiator but what do people think about these and is this just a gimmick? To me, the main point "should" be to cover around 80-500hz and have some advantage over similar bandwidth direct radiator. Is there?

It is easy to say they don't work but why? Or if they do, how?

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