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In the Forum: Horn-Loaded Speakers
In the Thread: The IDEAL horn system
Post Subject: The Purpose of the HornPosted by Paul S on: 6/19/2019
Gera, is this an idea you're familiar with from a sonic standpoint? The horns are supposed to boost lower frequencies within their pass bands without adding their own sound, or - more realistically - allowing for their own minimal contribution to the sound. Problems include growing size of the horns as frequencies drop, which eventually becomes an issue where physical/temporal alignment is concerned, also "dispersion" issues, including summing/cancellation/combing. In my Mad Hatter youth I tried almost randomly all sorts of "horns". FWIW, I never heard folded horns I'd put in this thread. If point source is something you cling to, the "pure" horns approach does not seem to be the approach to take. Not understanding the "theory" here, this omni seems almost like the "opposite" of "point source", vs., say, Heil or MBL...
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