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In the Forum: Horn-Loaded Speakers
In the Thread: The Macondo’s Upper Bass Channel: what is next?
Post Subject: Again, Romy, how far down will you run this driver?Posted by Paul S on: 11/9/2007
Romy, I am not clear from re-reading how low you plan to go with a 4" to 5 " dynamic driver, like you mentioned a few posts back. I thought I read that you planned to go as low as 70 Hz with this channel, which confused me when the 4 - 5" dynamic driver was discussed.
I think the nice paper 10" drivers are the best I have heard for tonal variation and "color" in the ~100 to 500 Hz range, and some are more than acceptable a good deal higher, too, depending on how hard you push them. I have no experience with horn "loading" dynamic drivers this large, but I can say that I was not successful with smaller drivers I did try because I could not figure out how to get rid of interactive effects/colorations that also screwed up and "divided" the tone into uneven "sections". Of course I am hardly an authority, since I also had "interactive" problems with "compression drivers", but they were definitely more pronounced with dynamic drivers; I don't know why.
Best regards,
Paul SRerurn to Romy the Cat's Site