Rerurn to Romy the Cat's Site


In the Forum: Horn-Loaded Speakers
In the Thread: Hmmm... the sad truth about BMS..
Post Subject: Re: JBL 2440Posted by stuck.wilson on: 9/16/2006
the sad truth was the space, the finite funds, and the available bms pucks!  the sad truth also, i suppose,the lack of available, and sensitive horn users to bounce off of!

i could probably see what your dislike of the bms stems from-- i tried to get rid of the 16-20k 'bump'.. but to no avail (with an inductor as an experiment, which killed everything else..).    kinda gives that fakey tizz to everything..  i tried every combination of bypass cap and attenuation possible.. but if you fix one thing, you lose another!

the 2440 goes up- looks like-- safely to about 8k- i'll have to look and see what horns'd be compatible.. my current driver is a 1", as is the throat of the horn.   seems like it'd follow a pretty traditional cap, lpad, and compensation cap passive crossover, and a good supertweeter might come in around 11k-ish?

or maybe i should tax the little altec a little less and cross it over lower.. that'd probably be even better.

if i was to take it up a tier from the 'casual dining' to the 'collared shirt/no jeans'.. not quite the 'jackets required..',  what might be that step- or would a different bass box pretty much be the necessary component?

world class... well.. that might never be me.. but i'm doin the best i can with what i've got.

thanks much for the feedback-

d.

Rerurn to Romy the Cat's Site