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In the Forum: Horn-Loaded Speakers
In the Thread: Barn Conversion - James' Project
Post Subject: Audible bass vs. edible bassPosted by Antonio J. on: 2/5/2007
I have no experience with bass horns, but I suppose that any sound source into a given size room can excite its modes, hence a big bass horn or a line array of boxed woofers can be equally annoying in that regard. So if the idea of using horns is to increase the sensivity of a transducer, and you can do this by using several bass cones, why going the hassle and previsible trouble of building a huge horn which you won't be able to tune once built? I think it creates more problems for time alignement, modes taming and so on than it solves.
I understand last Romy's post as a feeling I have listening to many systems out there. They use big speakers, into mid-sized rooms, and you really don't hear the fundamentals of a double bass or left-most piano notes, but feel them into your guts, shaking the room in a way I never experience listening to live music. OK, there are some auditoriums and places that you feel the room modes, but they're not as "falsely" shaking as happen to be in those installations I'm referring.
By the way Romy, how do you identify a wrong time alignement in the upper-midrange to treble range? Just want to learn.. maybe I can identify it as "something wrong" that I cannot verbalize yet.Rerurn to Romy the Cat's Site