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Similar experience but I get to keep my "old" room. I have just changed my 5 way horn loaded down to 140 hz speakers to a friends room twice as big as mine, with an open back area into the house as your new room has and one side and the front have hu...
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I have just installed my whole speaker system at a friends house, 5 way horn loaded, it was getting in my way for some tests I wanted to run (Tapped Horns, exponential 180 hz horn) I already like it better! Change is good.Koshka will love to have m...
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I dont want to hack this thread into TH, I tried them with sub-amps 150 watts and they didnt sound good, but I was using a passive preamp, when I added an active preamp things started to get better, now with 12 watts and a a lot of gain, bass is ama...
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Paul, I am no expert on tapped horns but I think the main (40 year old) principle is that you join the back wave of the driver with the front wave, now in order to have the 2 wave fronts meet, the back wave should travel a certain distance depending ...
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I am not and expert in wood construction, all the building we do around here is brick and mortar, but, If you get the Horn wall close to the roof you could fill that space up with that spray expanding foam. The side of the Mid bass horn will be sti...
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I have been playing around with speakers for a long time, and things started snapping when I got into horns. I have a system right now with an upperbass horn from 140 hz turned form MDF up to around 700 hz, to another horn, and another and a super t...
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Then there is this:
http://www.truextent.com/about.phtml
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http://professional.celestion.com/pro/products/cdx/detail.asp?ID=4
This driver looks interesting, it has aluminum diaphragm and neo magnets, it doesn't specify if it has a plastic suspension though.
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A the CES show the selling price was $ 100 thousand dollars for the speakers only and $ 200 k for the whole system with Viola Xovers and amplifiers.Time to dig out those old A7s and start playing with electronic Xovers......
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This was our big discussion, the big Lamm / Wilson room, the sound was perfect in a sense that was absolutely quiet everything where it should go, the tone of the instruments was perfect, the soundstage was perfect the instruments w...
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Well this is the RCA LC-9A It is identical, with an extra cabinet for an 18" driver...
We saw some old time reviewers going out of the room laughing and shaking their heads! We thought they were saying, yes a 50 year old speaker system just kill...
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I was there and heard it a while and then came back the next day to see if what I heard was true... it was.I talked with Allen Sides who was there showing his speakers and having a good time. It is a 3 way speaker, It has a 1" JBL compression driver...
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I am a self retired Painter also in my 40s, It is hard to try to live from art in a developing country and to do it with some dignity, but I did had some limited success.The road in the art world IMO is really not about contacts and galleries and s...
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Romy,
The upper bass horn has a Ceramic driver 18sound 8M400, the MF horn has an 18sound 2060A Neodymium magnet, tweeter is Beyma Ceramic driver and supertweeter is Fostex Alnico. The Leak amps are PP deep class A, we do have a...
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I have just taken out of my system a First Watt F5 clone Tim Rawson amp, It was substituted by a Telefunken PP amp with 6AQ5 tubes. Let me to explain.
My system consists of 6 way horn loaded speakers. I have a round Tactrix...
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I think hearing loss has to do a little bit with excessive HF in todays loudspeakers, with age this is the freq. that is mainly lost, so boosting it a little bit helps that... Most commercial systems exagerate HF mainly to make you think they have...
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There are some wire frame panels with styrofoam in the center than could be used, this panels are cut to size to make any shape you want,
and then they are covered with cement, they are...
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This is very interesting, I was thinking of such an option given the existence of a basement, (I do not have that luxury, but I have a concrete slab).
The idea that the driver is actually closer to the...
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This is a good example of a CNC horn. This is the Carfrae I was talking about. MDF Upperbass horns are made in sort of the same way, but you do have to cut the angles on the Lathe. (or leave the steps like a The thing is it is not really tridimensi...
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I am sorry there is a mistake in my previous post, anyone who has played around with a dedicated channel for a 40 to 200 hz frequency know hat the only sound coming out is a wooo, woo, woo... Not much to do listening test by, we can measure, but te...
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Just to answer a couple of question and post some more...
The Mouth changing sectors in the horn, according to the preliminary data posted here, would be as follow:
For the 40 hz horn: 4¨ Throat to 6¨ = 53 cm
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I have been running around this design for a couple of months...I re-designed it just now to change some numbers according to your post. The main idea is to have a lot of posibilities in a huge horn:It is formed by conical sectors th...
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This is another bass horn Floor Idea, they use only one 416 driver. It is time aligned. I would like it better as a ceiling horn, or maybe against the walls. The mouth is long and skinny....
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These are some theoretical questions, I guess we can only build them and see, but some would be clear no no....
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