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In the Forum: Horn-Loaded Speakers
In the Thread: Horn loaded ribbons and other Vasyachkin’s tangents....

Post Subject: Back-loaded TL speakersPosted by Vasyachkin on: 11/4/2008

Romy the Cat wrote:
I see some kind of so called “transmission line” that is fractured from multiple labyrinths where each of section acts as different resonant chamber… then I do not want to hear about “energy releasing and the rest crap.

lol. yes i think people who are into back-loaded transmission lines are simply bored, at best. first they invent problems that don't exist. then they create real problems to solve imaginary ones. then they try to solve the real problems and fail. then they pat themselves on the back for their relative degree of success in addressing the problems they have created. finally they compare the sound to a regular box and observe that it is indeed different. they then conclude that because it is different it must be more natural ... for some reason.

any kind of folding of a horn into a compact box shape is not a path towards high fidelity. it can only be justified, imho, by crushing SPL when that is the goal and also the result. for example when i was in a certain hip-hop club in manhattan they had some EAW folded horn subwoofers playing 50-Cent ... i was actually worried about getting dismembered by SPL from them. now i believe this is the way to cover 15 hz - 40 hz or so where fidelity is ultimately of little concern. the problem with the back loaded transmission line people is that most of the time they don't even achieve SPL levels of an average sub in circuit city.

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