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In the Forum: Horn-Loaded Speakers
In the Thread: Big mama 1.5" horns....
Post Subject: Let sail the horn....Posted by Romy the Cat on: 9/9/2006

 cv wrote:
Obviously it makes shipping and transportation a pain. Uncut implies sea transit which will take a few months. Martin mentioned that he almost didn't manage to get them out of his estate car, which would have resulted in the coolest car stereo ever.... To be honest, despite what I said earlier, I'm more worried about being able to get them in and out of the flat than the shipping expense.

Well I have a good solution for you. The Australian Martin might plug the throat of the horn, fill up a half of it with sand…. and use the alternative shipping options….

 cv wrote:
the idea for the horns was more motivated by use with the RCAs, which Steve Schell reckons are very happy at 300Hz 1st order or 250Hz 2nd order. But I am as interested in hearing what the S2 can do down low, c 450Hz, on such a horn.

Hm, I would suggest to take with suspicion Steve Schell’s comment about the RCA’s happiness at 300Hz. Steve is audio historian and he does not specialize in Sound. It might be possible to drive the RCA at 300Hz but no one person who has mind would not be doing it. What happens is the output tube of your SET pops and you loose your RCA diaphragm? To use a different diaphragm? Sure but it is not the RCA driver anymore and for the historian minded people it would be betraying… Anyhow, I think to starch a MF driver to sub-300Hz is a summit of foolishness. 300Hz driver in order do not have honk should be sitting in too large horn that will too heavily attenuate HF and eat transient and tonal discrimination (that RCA has problems to begin with).

 cv wrote:
So at the moment, the most likely delivery point is the UK. Are you guys able to email me from the site?

Nope, there is no way for the members to see your emails unless you explicitly enable it in you profile. The profile pages on my site are not spiderable.

Rgs,
The caT

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