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Romy the Cat


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About the Rogero’s or Johan Dreyer’s approach.
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A visitor of my site sent me email with following:

“I take it you don't like the Rogero style (or Johan Dreyer) bass horns with wings, but you could add compression to a similar setup and make it work properly. I have made several designs with ….”

This idea of bass horn arrangement that those guys use is very interesting in context of this thread. Bothe Rogero’s system and Johan Dreyer’s were mentioned before and I the Johan Dreyer’s horns were discussed:

http://www.romythecat.com/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?postID=6605#6605

Johan Dreyer’s showed up occasionally at this site

http://www.romythecat.com/Search.aspx?Phrase=Dreyer

Both Rogero and Johan had the same type bass horn installation that is certainly very elegant and invisible. My major problem with this approach is that those have very large mouth and work at lower frequencies rather as direct radiators line-array then horns. In this configuration those guys shell not use 515G drivers but rather for 515B drivers that have always 25Hz lower resonant frequency. So, the idea of Rogero’s or Johan Dreyer’s approach is to put one ass on two chairs and to get lower bass from essentially midbass horns.  It would be very interesting to see the Rogero’s or Johan’s equalization curve. We need to subtract the room gain, then we need to measure the acoustic pressure with horn and without horn at 40Hz. (resonant frequency of 515G is about 37-40Hz). If with horn it will be 6dB or more then whatever I say of BS. I do not think it is. If you look at the picture of Johan Dreyer’s horn then you see that is it very large horn but short with relatively large throat.  This time of horn might be fully-horn loaded (have +6dB or more) only down to relatively high frequency. I see no way it will have horn loaded all the way down.

JohanDreyerHorns.JPG

http://cgi.audioasylum.com/systems/8608.html

It is not the way how I would like to go with my own solution. I would like my midbass to have resonant frequency around 45Hz, the mouth rate to be around the same and the horn do not out (anechoicly) anything under the mouth rate. In this case the mouth will take care of the throat reactance and the driver will be properly operating on its own merit with no excessive excursion and with fully loading the horn down to the lowers horn band-pass frequency. So, I would like the lowest octave of the horn to be the effort of horn, not the horn’s driver. Sure the total sound in the room will be less extended to the bottom but it will be much cleaner, much SOFTER (which is the key) and will never sound like elephant belch – the characteristic that 95% of all midbass horns sound out there.  I do not propose that it is how the Rogero or Johan bass horn sound. I never heard them but anyone understand that all those conservations are purely speculative and all that I am trying to do is to furnish (based up my other experiences) the best conditions that might (or might not) lead to superior/maximum result for chosen topology.

So, would it be possible to optimize the Rogero’s and Johan’s idea to make it suitable with my objectives. I think it is and I think it might be an interesting direction as well. If to make the horn like Johan Dreyer did only to drive it with a single 8” throat then the horn will be longer but it will be properly loaded. In this configuration the curve will not be only on right and left but also atop and at bottom. Sure, I would like to use only long walls for my playback, so I was playing with the Rogero’s and Johan’s idea true to do it effective, elegant and small. Below is what I come up with. An additional good part for this idea is that it has no extended attributes outside of building and it will not have any zoning problems or the need to have neighbor compliance.

PlayWithJohanDreyerIdea.JPG

Also below is my sketch of a “perfect room” (in terms of dimensions) I posted a week ago in other thread.

Perfect_room.JPG

Rgs, Romy teh Cat


"I wish I could score everything for horns." - Richard Wagner. "Our writing equipment takes part in the forming of our thoughts." - Friedrich Nietzsche
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Romy the Cat


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Playing with Johan Dreyer’s idea further.
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It is very self-explanatory and liked it a lot. The advantage is that it might be used in any rectangular room and the most important that it is VERY simple to build this way. I think that if I have room then I might stop by in a local architecture shape and proposing a few cases of beer I might recruit local students to build foe me a set of plaster walls like this. The wall insets might be even easily removed if I wish so. Very cool!

PlayWithJohanDreyerIdea_1.JPG




"I wish I could score everything for horns." - Richard Wagner. "Our writing equipment takes part in the forming of our thoughts." - Friedrich Nietzsche
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Romy the Cat


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Eh, stupid!
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 Romy the Cat wrote:

It is very self-explanatory and liked it a lot. The advantage is that it might be used in any rectangular room and the most important that it is VERY simple to build this way. I think that if I have room then I might stop by in a local architecture shape and proposing a few cases of beer I might recruit local students to build foe me a set of plaster walls like this. The wall insets might be even easily removed if I wish so. Very cool! 
In my enthusiasm for R&E accommodation of the Johan Dreyer’s idea I forgot of about the time alignment.  With all elegant of my last proposal it will be time arrival not suitable for use, wich is very sad….

The Cat


"I wish I could score everything for horns." - Richard Wagner. "Our writing equipment takes part in the forming of our thoughts." - Friedrich Nietzsche
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Romy the Cat


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And sometimes I feel so blew that I do not what anything.
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I, in my stupid imagination, thought that I will be able to close my R&E saga as I thought I found a truly wonderful new home for myself.  The palace turned out to be grossly, I would say fraudulently, misspresented. Got home very disappointed and was looking for a refuge.

The refuse comes with Handel’s Messiah. I max out and almost literally hug my air conditioner; I warmed up Melquiades and crank up the Macondo’s volume. Then I spend an hour and a half with Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra under Anders Ohrwall and the celebrated The Stockholm Bach Choir crashing through Handel famous work.  Leaving all aspect of the Ohrwall’s interpretation outside of the subject of this thread I need to mention that while I was listening I did pay my side attention to the real estate aspect of my playback’s sound.

The playback sounded so good that I could not stand it sometimes and I was loosing myself in disbelieve that such a Moron as I am was able to accomplish it. My relatively small room sounded literally boundless and I heard no typical limitations associated with limited room. I REALLY like how my room is pressurized – it pressurized with very proper “tone” pressure right the way and across the whole full range. It is full, think and very what I call “very delegated sound”. It would be heard to explain to normal people what “delegated sound” is but the folks who do object-oriented software engineering might understand….

I have no idea how much time and efforts it will take for me to get the same sound in a new larger place. Sure a larger place would offers own new advantaged and opportunities but I LOVE Sound in this room and I do not know if this type of sound will be even possible in larger room. My current room is 21’ by 18’; I am looking for 3 times bigger. The 4 times larger, the 42’ by 36’ will be a bit too large for me… Still I might be missing in future the Sound I have now…

The Cat


"I wish I could score everything for horns." - Richard Wagner. "Our writing equipment takes part in the forming of our thoughts." - Friedrich Nietzsche
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Romy the Cat


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Another renderation of Rogero’s or Johan Dreyer’s idea
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This is a guy from Japan and he made his 4 ways GOTO drivers.

MidBassHornsWithGoto.jpg

What I like that he made midbass horns with smaller throat then Johan Dreyer. This Japanise guy has tall room and he made his horns to have smaller throat and to have a curve up – that is smart. The rough rectangular edges around the bass horn are not necessary and shall not be there. In fact I would make the upper curve even taller all the way up. The guy used 4 drivers but they do not start from floor but I would say 25-30” up – a waste of throat in my view. Still, these horns need length, length, length more length…

Now, compare it with Marcel Roggero horns from France

MarcelRoggeroHorns.jpg

The Cat

PS: Also there is a guy who builds wooden midbass hors. Does anyone knows him and knows if he accept instructions for custom orders and able to follow them?

http://www.thundergun.it/ENGLISH.htm



"I wish I could score everything for horns." - Richard Wagner. "Our writing equipment takes part in the forming of our thoughts." - Friedrich Nietzsche
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Saturntube
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About time alignment in mid bass horns
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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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Romy the Cat


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The time alignment scenarios.
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A site visitor sent me emails saying:

“Johan Dreyer says he can hear no time delay with his bass horns…”

Well, first of all I disagree with it. The fact that Johan Dreyer can hear no time delay is not an indication that delay is not auditable. Johan might not know what specifically to listen or he says it as he has no options to time align his midbass. I would agree that one need midbass time aligned with fraction of inch precision but, even inch does not a lot of difference.  But a number of feet of differences is not a good idea. I might say a lot about the subject as I have a LOT of experience to deal with various aspects of time misalignment.  However, my objectives are not to criticize Johan’s view but rather to use the examples of his (and others) decisions and implementation to nail down what I would like to do with my own playback. My standing is that to use horns without time alignment is not good. I am not saying that if a meticulous time alignment was not implemented then the playback shall be dynamited. BUT, I feel that if the objectives of meticulous time alignment are preliminary goals during the period when a system is architected then why do not consider the alignment? Johan Dreyer has no ways to hear his playback in time-aligned mode, I still do…

Now about the diagram with different time alignment scenarios that Saturntube posted.

The top row is unquestionably the best way to time align. The alternative might be turning the horn way off – it is not a problem at all. A midbass horn does not have need to fire directly to a listening spot and to be on axis. The midbass horns might be even parallel to the walls shooting to the back and to be locate at arrival- aligned location.  In case of rectangular hors it is even a preferable way to do the things as it would allow to use lower low-pass filter and to remove more HF from the horn. The only exceptions from this I see in the Jessie-type horns. Jessie’s horns are full spherical midbass and made to be hanged in air above the MF in time-aligned position.  In my view it is absolutely perfect way to do the things but I am pretty sure that I will not have bolls to go for such a radical (but beautiful) solution.

The bottom line looks like the proper alignment but it is not, particularly the left image.  The alignment is not a pure geometry but the equalization of time arrival. In left bottom image has diaphragms in equidistant position but the wave needs to travel across the bend of the horn and this time need to be considered.  So, in the left bottom scenario the midbass horn needed to be moved closer to listener…

The Cat


"I wish I could score everything for horns." - Richard Wagner. "Our writing equipment takes part in the forming of our thoughts." - Friedrich Nietzsche
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Getting on with it, while keeping options open
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Regardless of where you get them made, I would opt for free-standing horns mounted on wheels, as this allows the most flexibility in integrating them with your as-yet-unknown space (for example, you could build such horns into a wall, mount them in the attic, install them in the basement, or simply place them beside the MF & HF horns out in the open). This would allow you to get an order in for their construction while still looking for the ideal space.

Romy wrote :
"...PS: Also there is a guy who builds wooden midbass hors. Does anyone knows him and knows if he accept instructions for custom orders and able to follow them?..."
http://www.thundergun.it/ENGLISH.htm

Just gonig on intiution here : I don't know this guy, but he IS Italian, and, based only on experience working with them in making prototype cars, I would be tempted to contact him. Italians are passionate, typically stubborn, but optimistic, and extremely resourceful craftsmen. With the right amount of diplomacy (demonstration of respect), he might be persuaded to do whatever you want. Based also on my experience, it might take twice as long as he says to get the things done.

jd*


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Saturntube
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More Ideas
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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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Looks like a good solution
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 Romy the Cat wrote:

It is very self-explanatory and liked it a lot. The advantage is that it might be used in any rectangular room and the most important that it is VERY simple to build this way. I think that if I have room then I might stop by in a local architecture shape and proposing a few cases of beer I might recruit local students to build foe me a set of plaster walls like this. The wall insets might be even easily removed if I wish so. Very cool!

PlayWithJohanDreyerIdea_1.JPG



I llike this solution too. As mentioned, horn length is the biggest problem with the other designs shown above. If I were doing this, I would want at least 9 feet of length. Alingment is another problem. Maybe an all pass filter could help here without messing things up?
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Romy the Cat


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My stupid wet dreams. How little a man need….
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Yep, if I do it then I will do it right: with a single driver, with full length, with proper mouth, with slow profile and if it had curve then it will be properly linearly expending curve, not with the resonant chambers or with steps. The problem with it only size, positioning and cost. I hope the size and positioning will be resolved in 800 sq feet room. The cost? Well, people do it once in life… How much those things might cost $10-$15K-20K? I do not know. I still hope that if I ready to proceed then I will spend affords and find a right maker (hopefully locally) whom I will be able to motivate not only by the money I pay to him but rather the uniqueness of the project. I have a recursive wet dream that I’ll found at a next street a good carpenter who I will be able to hook on the idea of “better sound” and who would be inspired to hear what his horn will be able to do.

From how I see it now it might be one of 4 scenarios:

1)    If a new home has this option then I will gladly build the things into house structure

2)    If I add in my 800 sq feet to the house then I will consider how it will be done.

3)    If I end up with 1200-1400 sq feet loft in city then it would depends of the width and height. If I have width not 10-15 feet height then it will be rectangular horns on the side parallel with the walls.

4)    If I have 15-25 feet height then it would be hardly anything more beautiful then what Jessie it trying to do:  full size spherical horns hanging ay ceiling above Macondo in time-aligned position. Call be a person with a corrupted sense of esthetics but if those horns are nicely finished then might not looks like two Hindenburgs but rather like two Dally mythical animals, sort of Pink Floyd’s flying Pigs… I will work with light to make is very “interesting”…

 JLH wrote:
Alingment is another problem. Maybe an all pass filter could help here without messing things up?

Oh John, do not even open this door! There are only disappointments behind this door.

The Cat


"I wish I could score everything for horns." - Richard Wagner. "Our writing equipment takes part in the forming of our thoughts." - Friedrich Nietzsche
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Romy the Cat


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A proper commercial midbass horn, sort of....
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Since I started this thread I have received a number of emails from people bitching that I do not like this, criticize that and that they can’t figure out what I do like. I reply to them invariably – “Do not read my site as you are too much a Moron”. However, besides the devaluing a “secretive” fact that there are plenty of idiots who visit my site there is a useful side element among the inquiry  that those people ask and the question would be – are any properly made commercial midbass horn available out there?

It would be safe to say that I know probably all public commercial midbass horn available and frankly I do not like any of them. It is not that that all of them sound bad (and most of them are) but rather from a perspective of conceptual architecting not of the commercial midbass horn appears to me.  As I said before - I want full length, small through, sufficient mouth, no chambers, no steps, properly continuing-expending slow profile. Any anyone does it commercially? Nope, everyone cheat.

There is only one commercial midbass that remotely fulfill all my demands. I am taking about Western Electric 15A horn. Then 15A is well-know horn with 57x57 mouth and with a very properly made continually-curving neck.

http://www.audioanthology.com/building.htm

http://www.moviemice.com/we/horns/index.php

it has all attributes  to feet my bill of being good horn.

WE15A.jpg

WE15A_diagram.jpg

Still being the most properly made among the much worse midbass comparators I am not in complete agreement with what 15A does and would like not to repeat their mistakes. The 15A has near 60Hz mouth but was designed to use with WE555 driver that feel hardly comfortable at 100-150Hz.  The 15A has a presses stress zone at the last bend.  The 15A has a bit too low level of horizontal expansion. And in the end the 15A is something that I call wall-stressed horn. The wall-stressed horn is a horn where circumferential force not evenly presses one side of horn bell. The sound that runs across the 15A horn is like in centrifuge pressed to the outer skirt. The presence of the wall-stressing itself is not so bad - the question is how the stress is handled. If it handled with proper dumpling or proper mass-lording of the stressed surface then it is OK. The 150 point of the 15A is not nearly enough to handle the circumferential force of pressure so the 15A sounds as good as many butterflies will lend atop the 15A while it is working. Sure, there is no “movement of air” in horn a horn and the circumferential force in horn might be visualized only conceptually. I do not have data or evidence about the different pressure in the wall-stressed horns. But I do know that wall-stressed horns with all the rest equal conditions do sound always more surface-colored then horn with mouth that have no pressure obstacles or stressed walls.

What is necessary to make the 15A to sound better then it is.  The 15A must weigh 800 pounds for start and the walls shall be 4 times thinker. Alternative to the beefing up the horn wall would be axis-curving of the stressed surface. In this approach the stress will not be applied to the flat surface as it is done in 15A but despaired across curve that located  transversely  to axis of the horn (the way how it done in Silbatone‘s Aporia). The last curved need to be slightly smoothed up. A ultra-low- exertion driver, capable for full 50Hz , good  TTH characteristic, with the same little throat has to be found - good luck with this one! The 15A as it now shall be OK sounding horn - primary because the small throat and slow horn rate. Could it be better, I bet it might. Still, as it is the 15A probably the less problematic commercial midbass horn among all made.

What would be fun if someone would make the replica of 15A only magnified twice larger! That horn will be able to go an octave lower, will be able to use 4-5” throat with more LF able driver. And the most important is that it will be able to have more space in the curved neck and everywhere else to make the walls of this larger horn very tough and very stiff. If somebody makes a pair of those 1000 pounds double-size 15A horn then invite me – it would be worth to listen. I just afraid that to make the double-size 15A horn will be for somebody much harder than to make the same straight horn.

Rgs, Romy the Cat


"I wish I could score everything for horns." - Richard Wagner. "Our writing equipment takes part in the forming of our thoughts." - Friedrich Nietzsche
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Romy the Cat


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Ok, I've found a great home for my left 20Hz bass horn!
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It is a bit far…

http://atlas.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?searchtype=address&formtype=latlong&latlongtype=degrees&latdeg=42&latmin=16&latsec=12&longdeg=-70&longmin=45&longsec=30

but it has 114-foot ceiling and it is FREE

 http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/20303604/detail.html

... and it is "romantic"

 http://www.lighthousefriends.com/light.asp?ID=474  (great read!)

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The Cat




"I wish I could score everything for horns." - Richard Wagner. "Our writing equipment takes part in the forming of our thoughts." - Friedrich Nietzsche
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skushino
Seattle, WA
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Consider
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Plenty of light to work light in to the night, but good luck keeping your driver cones dry.  And no worries about the electrical grid.
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Romy the Cat


Boston, MA
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People who do general contracting…..
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This is not a specific question but I would like to have some abstract general numbers in my head. Paul said somewhere that he is in building business, perhaps other are close to it. So, might I have a very approximate estimate for a project I describe below? Sure, it would greatly vary depending many conditions but I still think some point of reference might be given, particularly since I have no point of monetary reference at all.

So, it I have properly with a shell building on it  to which I would like extend one wall then what the cost might be? Let keep all subjects of zoning and permits aside. The point is that I do not add one room but I tear down one wall and extend space. So, we are taking about contraction of brick 3 walls of approximately 25’ by 35’ and 12’ tall on a concrete slop. The standard triangle or a single angle ceiling (17’ feet near house wall and 10 feet at opposite side). No internal decorative walls around the brick shell, no digging for foundation, no basemen, no heating, no pluming, no electricity, no widows, no doors…

Can somebody give me a very rough numbers?
Thanks, the Cat


"I wish I could score everything for horns." - Richard Wagner. "Our writing equipment takes part in the forming of our thoughts." - Friedrich Nietzsche
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Romy the Cat


Boston, MA
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The throat considerations.
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I was thinking about the throat of my hypothetic midbass horn. This is complex, controversial and it has pretty much no answer, at least in the formeat I ask it. I will share my thoughts with you.

Let pretend that I went for exponential midbass profile, perhaps with a slight hyperbolic dent. Let look a very preliminary numbers for spherical horns. From the diameter of spherical it is simple to get area of circle and to convert it to any rectangular format. Also, if I would like to add to my exponential profile any hyperbolic depression (and most likely I would) then it would make the horn longer, let say 15% longer for a sane level of “hyperbolicizm”.

Throat diameter Type (Hz) Length Mouth diameter
4” , 10.2 cm, 81.7 sq cm 50 3m / 9' 10" 1.6m /5' 3"
4” , 10.2 cm, 81.7 sq cm 40 4.03 m / 13' 3" 1.95m / 6' 4.8"
6” , 15.2cm, 181 sq cm 50 2.5 m / 8' 2" 1.6m /5' 3"
6” , 15.2cm, 181 sq cm 40 3.5 m / 11' 6" 1.95m / 6' 4.8"
8” , 20.3cm, 324 sq cm 50 2.3 m / 7' 7" 1.6m /5' 3"
8” , 20.3cm, 324 sq cm 40 3.1 m / 10' 2" 1.95m / 6' 4.8"
10” , 25.4cm, 507 sq cm 50 1.98 m / 6' 6" 1.6m /5' 3"
10” , 25.4cm, 507 sq cm 40 2.8 m / 9' 2" 1.95m / 6' 4.8"

It would be very nice to have a good compression driver with 4” throat and to load it into 4m /13 foot horn. The biggest problem in here however is not the horn (that is a bitch itself) but the driver. Who the hell has a good driver with 4” throat that will be able to do 40Hz -50Hz and to sound “interesting”. The Japanese manufactures GOTO and ALE reportedly heavy and expensive bass drivers that might do the job but where is the assurance that they have interesting sound or even sound appropriately? I do not trust to those people (in fact I do not trust to anybody), their drivers are not available for experiments and whatever people do build with GOTO/ALE I do not like. What it important in this paragraph to memories that the biggest problem with GOTO/ALE drivers that they are the drivers with “predetermined” sonic quality and the quality of them unknown.

So, sanest solution would be to open up throat and look for larges driver. This would make the horn shorter that does not suck too much, but we I not want to go for too large throat as I will loss the horn gain at lower octave. The 6” is looks like fine throat but if I have my driver that I like is 15” then it will do too big front chamber. The 8” probable will do better with 3M 40Hz horn – almost manageable, isn’t it? Well, yes and not.

Remember I was bitching about the unknown sonic quality, the unpredictable TTH characteristic of GOTO/ALE bass drivers? I have a very high confidence in the TTH quality of my selected 15” drivers that is used as compression drivers in my hypothetic midbass but there is behind my confidence a very big slippery moment.  Regardless what you heard from anyone and anywhere there are a few absolutely invariable rules on horns. They are not my own rules but they universal are the rules with what you can’t fuck with. I call them “Macondo's Axioms”, not particularly because they are implemented in Macondo bur because I discovered them while I was playing with Macondo (search for Macondo's Axioms if you wish more). So, one of unconditional postulates of the Macondo's Axioms is that it is absolutely impossible to predict how the sound of driver will be changed what the driver will be loaded into a horn.  I know, I know, I know… I see a crowd of Morons armed HornResps, T/S characteristics, Earl Geddes’ assurances and other irrelevant craps scream in response that what I just said is not true. But trust me - they do not know anything about Sound - I do. The truth is that in driver-horn interaction besides the common algorithmable mass-reactance paradigm there are so many other satellites that the final TTH modification of a horn-loaded driver is absolutely non–predicable. Where does it leave me? 

It leaves me with the fact that my beloved 151-10/40 driver of 15” sounds extraordinary but I know it when the driver is load into 15” throat. I have absolutely not idea how the Sound will change when it will be loaded to 8” or 6” throat.  I might become even better but there is no way to know it, the very same as with GOTO/ALE bass drivers…

About my hunch. Generally I feel that the drivers that slightly compress sound at open air sound better in horns. My 15-inchers sound in open air or within a very low compression of 15” throat very nice and very full. This is not a good sign. However, I have no idea how big from the cone mass of the given driver the reactance of the 12” long horn would be and how the driver will be behave sonically when I begin to harden it with the  back chamber. Some drivers bloom in this application and some loose colors, contacts and other “exoteric” characteristics. The point is that it is absolutely imposable to know what driver will do until you build the damn horn, put the driver in use and see what happen. An additional sad thing is that even among those few who have done something near-similar not one passes any constrictive critical feedback about the results.

So, in the environment of complete lack of clarity what would happen with the sound of a given loaded driver the decision to do for 4”, 6” or 8” throat become pure arbitrary and at this point I have no slightest idea what I would do it I go there.

Rgs, Romy the Cat


"I wish I could score everything for horns." - Richard Wagner. "Our writing equipment takes part in the forming of our thoughts." - Friedrich Nietzsche
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JLH
Indianapolis, IN U.S.A.
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Make your own
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The way I would handle this is make my own 4" exit compression driver. What I mean is select a woofer with known good sonic qualities that match your requirments. Then make a phasing plug for it. My past attemps have been decent. However, I have noticed that most woofers (cone drivers) do not want to see much more than 6.5 : 1 compression ratio. You can make a perfect casting of the woofer and use this as the blank to begin machining the phasing plug. See below pictures for an example for 5" woofer.


Cover woofer with Parafilm thermoplastic





combine fast setting resin according to instructions



Pour resin up to the correct level




Allow resin to set up




Pop the phasing plug blank off of woofer - now machine it


Rgs, John
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Romy the Cat


Boston, MA
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I would like to use my 15-incher, the question is HOW?
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John, I see where you go with it.

I afraid that I will not be making my drivers – I have no idea how to make them in order them to sound the way I need. I have no problem to design and to make 4" exit compression driver or to undertake a project to reengineer an existing crappy one (like Community M4) but I have absolutely no idea what TTH characteristics (Tonal-Transient-Harmonics composite balance) this project would lead to.  So, I would rather take advantage of what I have and what I know and capitalize upon what have a very good reference.

I need to say that the sound of Vitavox 151-10/40 drivers make me horny like nothing else. They are truly Stradivarius of mid-bass drivers. They are in a way similar to Altec 515G but Altecs have dry and purple-like tome vs. Vitavox is much warmer, much more most and witch much more sophisticated harmonics. The very first versions of Tannoys – Silver and Reds has some sort of that quality but Tannoys took it a bit further and flood sound with very lucrative colorations. The Vitavox in contrary is very smart and if necessary it can play clean and unprejudiced, in some cases it show some very fine tone and if it willing to do all the way down to the tonal firework then it opens own tail like a magic peacock, showing off what level of tonal nobility is possible in audio. If you find yourself to visit me I will let you just to scratch the cone of well-preserved 151-10/40 and you will have your multiple-orgasm… So, I truly would like to use THAT as the source. Now, how do not lose THAT in the compression and horn gain – that will be the dilemma.

What I need from you, or from anybody else, try to think how to load 15” driver into 6”-8” throat without building too much compression. I need to mention that I do not take out of accounts the option to go for side-positioned 15” throat and labyrinth loading…

Rgs, Romy the Cat


"I wish I could score everything for horns." - Richard Wagner. "Our writing equipment takes part in the forming of our thoughts." - Friedrich Nietzsche
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JLH
Indianapolis, IN U.S.A.
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Circumferential phasing plug problems
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I understand your position on compression and not wanting to screw up the tone. The Community M4 driver is the perfect example of how NOT to build a 4” exit compression driver. First, the cone/dome material is garbage. Neither the sandwiched aluminum nor the carbon fiber cone/dome has anything interesting to offer in tone. In addition the phasing plug is all wrong in design. The circumferential phasing plug is a huge offender of tone if not implemented correctly. Funny enough, Vitavox is the only one to get it right in the S2. All others are compromises which do not have interesting tone.

The problem can be seen in the design of the circumferential phasing plug. Various different frequencies launch off of a cone or dome where the frequency’s wavelength is equal to circumference. So, if you have a 15” woofer and play an 800Hz tone through it, you will find that most of the acoustic energy is coming from the area of the cone that is 5.38” in diameter. The higher the frequency, the closer the sound emits from the dust cap area and vise versa.
 
Now knowing this, you see the inherit flaw of the circumferential phasing plug. The rings that form it block several diameters across the dome. This also creates reflections and resonance problems. The radial phasing plug on the other hand does not suffer from these problems. Since the radial slits start at the center and go to the edge of the done or cone, all diameters have a clear path straight forward and all tones are represented. They are not impeded or forced to wiggle around a ring. This means that all tone gets through the radial phasing plug and is better preserved. No it doesn’t exactly sound like the cone without a phasing plug, but it is very much closer to not screwing with the sound.

http://www.nutshellhifi.com/library/Altec&Henrickson_Tangerine.pdf

Another advantage to the radial phasing plug is the slit width and dome spacing can be changed to shape the high frequency response. The circumferential phasing plug dies quickly at high frequencies, but the radial phasing plug has a useful high frequency tail.

http://www.nutshellhifi.com/library/Henricksen_1978_Tangerine_PP.pdf

Rgs, John
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Romy the Cat


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....puzzled with your response....
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John, I am bit puzzled with your response.

I do not know what would be a proper material for cone/dome of diaphragm. The source where “tone” is born in compression drivers is absolute mystery to me and I in my holly naiveté believe that no one else knows where tone comes from. If people would know it then they would use their knowledge but they don’t.

What actually surprised me in your reply is your accent on phasing plug. You might be right in what you say about tone and  phasing plug design but it would hardly might be related to my problem in the hand (OK, I admit the hypothetical problem as now). My Midbass horns will most likely rolls off at 160-200Hz and I do not see it use any phasing plug at all. In contrarily I think it might (might) need some kind very “messy” front chamber. What I say the “messy” I meant an intentionally high order of HF reflections and cancelation in order to keep HF as much attitude as possible. I even thought to have between the throat and the driver a small anti-horn curve that would maximize the HF mess but also would introduce a soft change of compression ratio.

Are you truly seeing a phase plug in 40Hz midbass horns?  I see only contra-phase plug. I have no idea how to do it for now and how it might affect anything by I certainly do not see in there a classic phase plug.

Rgs, Romy the Cat
 


"I wish I could score everything for horns." - Richard Wagner. "Our writing equipment takes part in the forming of our thoughts." - Friedrich Nietzsche
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