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In the Forum: Horn-Loaded Speakers
In the Thread: Jessie Dazzle Project
Post Subject: Cramped tweeter & frame aestheticsPosted by jessie.dazzle on: 7/17/2008
Romy's quotes in blue:
"...It feels that there is very little room for the tweeter to breathe. It is not the narrow firing tweeter and I think you might give to it a little bit more room..."
Yes I was thinking the same thing, and the frame does offer plenty of space... The tweeter currently has an unobscured line of fire but only when not taking into account its vertical diffusion angle. I have difficulty ignoring vertical diffusion when projected along the depth of the tweeter's firing axis out past the mouth of the 180Hz horn.
To be honest, I started off with the Fundamentals horn much higher up; I then brought it down as low as possible. This was back in the days when I was over soliciting the Fundamentals horn and needed to get it lower (see previous posts).
"...The frame that holds the Fundamentals Channel is kind of odd esthetically. It looks like it was not from there. I do not know how bone-firm and how heavy your Fundamentals horn, but is it does need some support and cannot just to hang then you might consider to use a harness around a horn and a single rod from the top of the frame to the horn. What I am trying to say that the support of the Fundamentals Channel might be more elegant…"
Uh... Wait a minute, the junction of the Fundamentals horn cradle with the main mast is (visually) my favorite part of the whole installation!... But I am more fascinated by bridges than by bird's nests.
I also have to admit to one of my fetishes : It's bad, but I tend to interpret purity of solution at that which incorporates consistency of logic. Having the same sort of mounting scheme for each horn, a mounting that employs the same logic but changes only in scale, is aesthetically pleasing to my tainted intellect (an all-horn system, all 1st order crossovers, etc). If I were to hang one horn, I would want to hang them all... Sick and completely idiotic I know.
That aside, I find the frame/horns/drivers to be a visually well balanced mass. Yes it is heavy-duty, and we are definitely very far from are the universe of "Fine Furnishings", but that's what turns me on... If I could have a suspension bridge or pair of oil derricks in the living room I probably would. Ironically or not, all this BS stems from a natural aversion to BS.
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