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In the Forum: Horn-Loaded Speakers
In the Thread: Practical Guide for Back Chambers Tuning.
Post Subject: It is one the reasons why I love horns.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 11/8/2006
 Ronnie wrote: |
| These millimeters will be fun to play with. |
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Ronnie, I know exactly how it sounds. As soon Sound hits a range of upperbass then the system sounds like somebody attached to the driver some kind of trammel. it feels as someone grabs my throat and is trying to suffocate you. Usually is an indication of a typically enrapt and senseless design and it would be fine if everyone would stop here. In reality audio people try to “cure” the problem … by increasing volume of this over-dumped driver. This makes Sound a complete nightmare….
The biggest problem in here is that those “millimeters” could not be generalized. Each horn, each driver in each acoustic environment will retract to the “millimeters” differently. I can tell you more: even the specific condition of the given driver cone will be requiring own tuning by the different amount of those “millimeters”. A driver with dry cone that was working in your system will have deferrer amount to moisture in it’s cone and will need different amount of the “millimeters” then a driver that was sitting for year in your storage with presumably not regulated temperature and humidity. I have for instance a few new pars of Altec 515 driver that are all new but that were keep last 40 year in different conditions… and they do sound differently and they do react to damping differently….
This is one of the many reasons why I like horns: because they in order to operate properly should be properly “tuned”. In many instances the horns sound very indicative of what people are truing to accomplish…
Rgs,
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