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The Other End of the Single End: Modern Horns Done With Flare An Interview With Dr. Bruce Edgarby Dave Glackin, printed in POSITIVE FEEDBACK. 1996
Dave Glackin interviewed Dr. Bruce Edgar in his home, prior to the 1996 WCES. A follow-up on the speak...
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It is difficult to talk with audio people about Horns. It is a constraint problems, and not only in audio, when the mistakes of a specific poor implementation or a chase of a mistaken tangentional notions might shatter an entire concept. The very sam...
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Ok, I blamed the tweeters and MF drivers now the turn of the MF horns. The Mid Frequency Horns (I’ll them “MFH” from now and on) are the stinky like pieces of horn installations, and if they are not done correct then they screw up anything big time T...
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[quote user="Markus"]Re-reading, I realise you stated your preference for a sealed bass array only in relation to Dreyer's bass horn, not to bass horns in general.[/quote]Markus, it is not only about the Dreyer's bass horn. It is about lower bass...
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All below is written by Thomas Dunker
Yeah, "sound consistent independent of signal level" is a very precise way to sum up my whole speaker philosophy. Anything that is assumed to be constant, but which actually changes with signal dynamics is what ...
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Ok, I blamed the tweeters and MF drivers now the turn of the MF horns. The Mid Frequency Horns (I’ll them “MFH” from now and on) are the stinky like pieces of horn installations, and if they are not done correct then they screw up anything big time T...
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Another particle of a good Horn Propaganda. It was published in Sound Practices in 1994 and written by Joe Roberts. I disagree with quite many of the author’s statements but his strategic view that the majority of the horns and the horn installations...
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In considering integration of my own mid-bass horns, and how I'd ideally like to do it, I too passed by the underground, up-firing solution, and very much like this approach. I do however have a preference for inverting the concept, resulting in a do...
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As the builder behind these horns, I can answer some of your questions. It's true, I was primarily focused on the woodworking/building side, and now I'm experimenting with amplification and crossovers. I can't speak authoritatively on those subjects...
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This there is the last in the “THE PROBLEMS WITH HORNS” cycle. The previous threads might be found at:
Problems with horns: tweeters.Problems with horns: mid-range horns.Problems with horns: mid-range drivers.
This would be probably the most contro...
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Back in end of 90s, we read articles by Thomas Dunker, Joe Roberts, Bruce Edgar, and many others (some of them were designers and some of them just publicists) who were trying to persuade that horns are some kind of advantageous topology and that...
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Hi Jessie:It is indeed a (t)horny dilemna whether to get rid of the midbass horns now, with a view to starting all over again and customise the new horns for your eventual new home in Detroit or ship them at unfortunately what will be a very substant...
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[quote user="Jordi"] The secret is the K-Horns with ALL the mods!!! If you heard it you wouild know what I'm talking about! . [/quote]
The K-Horns were Klipsch’s attempt to do something more or less reasonably sounding. They were doing K-Horns...
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I can recommend Attila from Hungary ; fast , professional and reasonable . He advertises on AA classifieds : http://www.audioasylumtrader.com/ca/listing/Speakers-Horns-Parts-Stands/Manufacture/tractrix-le-cleac-39-h-spherical...../Wooden-horns-until-...
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There were plenty it of them made: Techniques 9500, Excusive 2301, Iwatas, JBL 2350 and JBL 2345, Vitavox (narrow) and few others … They kind of very strange horns and I always was suspicions about them. Though my suspicions are purely theoretical: a...
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Probably not one subject among horn enthusiasts does not arouse as much fantasies as midbass horns. This subject in one way or another was discussed at my site (look for the linked threads) but I would light look at the subject of the Midbass ho...
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Since having replaced the 16 Ohm drivers in my upper-bass horns with 8 Ohm versions of the same driver, I gained enough upper-bass output that it is now possible to run all horns from the 8 Ohm taps (I was previously running upper-bass from the 16 Oh...
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Below is how my midbass horns feel in my listening room user normal lighting if evening listening. The horn look a bit too dart but they are the same density as the walls in the room. The horns feel darker because the Triangular wall is all white, fr...
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Steve Schell pointed to Bill Woods’ site aka RCAfan.
http://www.acoustichorn.com/
I do not know the guy but the site looks attractive. Some of his old large horns are interesting as so on… however, what make me to wonder is the horns that Bill Woo...
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I spoke recently with a friend of my and was trying to describe the sound of my midbass horns. I said that if Wagner was able to have his custom Bayreuth Tubas then why I am not able to have my Bruckner Midbass horns. I kind of like the metaphor that...
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[quote user="noviygera"] I am NOT talking about single wideband drivers or any back loaded type horns. I am talking about properly made front loaded horns. For example, the Danley Synergy horns, that use single horn with multiple drivers to cover a w...
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I've been thinking; rather than placing the mid-bass horns off to the sides or above the rest of the horns as in the first two images below (a CAD model of the horns in my new place); a plan which implies accepting imperfect time alignment...Ori...
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This is an article from Thomas Dunker's site (available in my Links Section) and presumably written by him. Although I slightly disagree with some of the statements he made about the horns “imaging” and some others but generally it is very good...
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This is an article from Thomas Dunker's site (available in my Links Section) and presumably written by him. Although I slightly disagree with some of the statements he made about the horns “imaging” and some others but generally it is very good...
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This subject of digital crossovers became quite popular during last few years and many audio-people give up and go for a simplicity and painlessness of digital crossovering. There is an army of people out there who would swear by a complete transpare...
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Hi all
Thanks for your thoughts, Romy.
In my view the least controversial of your “THE PROBLEMS WITH HORNS” cycle. Or, to put it another way, I agree with most of it.
I'm not so critical as you to open baffles for midbass, tho,
in fact I thin...
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eyop fellas,Romy wrote: "Here we go! Not we are taking!!! I would not need the S2 tweeter and what it dose now in 400Hz horn is perfectly enough. I would go only for the midbass S2. Something with 6” cellulose diaphragm, low to medium compressi...
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I am reading through those interesting threads.
I have just won a pair of S2 on ebay so I am interested in horns for them. I have fired an email to Vitavox Peter and I will get his diaphragms. Since my drivers are in UK, maybe he ...
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I know that tweeters is a “lost subject” and it is hard to talk about tweeters with audio people. Everyone understand tweeters differently, primary in context of this systems or even more correctly – in context of this frustrations with thier current...
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[quote user="TonyB"] So do your horns have 115Hz flare frequency? (and have the rear chamber tuned for 115Hz as well) [/quote]
They are 35”. Do your math. The back chamber tuned at 115Hz.
[quote user="TonyB"] From the pictures the horns look like t...
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