el`Ol wrote:

Hello Romy! I just listened to this system http://www.hornfabrik-eder.de/index.htm which has an 8" Görlich in the upper bass horn and I couldn´t find anything "inherently faulty" about > 4" without compression. The kettledrums sounded as they should and I found the bass is rather the strength of that system. BTW, The suggestion of trying the Visaton minibass wasn´t a joke. I don´t know your horn´s geometry, but in general it simulates quite nicely with 100dB sensitivity and not too rugged response.

It was intersecting Horns installation, in many ways deriding from many of Macondo axioms…

The horn loaded Görlich? Well, it might be controversial even though I love the Görlich drivers. I have to note that it is absolutely impossible to predict how a driver might sound horn loaded, so all my concerns might be a not be applicable. However, I do have some theoretical concerns for this given placation. Let me to enumerate them:

1)    8" Görlich has too low resonant frequency for upperbass horn
2)    Görlich has very soft suspension made from quite resonant rubber
3)    Görlich has too much excursion for the duty
4)    Görlich has too little sensitively
5)    Alleged need to for sharper then necessary high-pass filter

Saying all of it I have to add – you never know and horn loaded Görlich need to be tried as any other driver-candidate. I might only assume that Görlich would require a different type of back chamber chandelling then the other better horn drivers. What kind handling is possible to say one during the actual experiments and the actual listening…

Well, all things shell come in right time.  If I was in a “experiments mode” with my upperbass then I would try it but I do not see myself to do it at this point. It would be interesting to hear the thoughts of the guys who did try to horn load Görlich. Unfortunately I do not read German and I do not know what the linked guy says (if he says anything about the subject)

Correction: Most of the current production Görlichs seem to have rubber surround, too. They are not so well-known among DIYers because prices have gone WAY up. There is no 8"er, so the ones I have listened to are old production.

Oliver,

Yes, in the first links that you sent it is clearly visible a fabric suspension – very interesting. Who is that guys? Are his drivers commercially available? Well, I asked and then I made a pose for myself. Well, a hard-suspended and fabric-suspended Görlichs would be a very interesting driver to try but… do I need it. I mean, it might be a very good driver but what use I have from it? I am kind of all set with speakers and even if those fabric-suspended drivers are available then would I buy them? Well, I have a storage filed with many exotic drivers that experimented and deseeded that they have a potential. I have so many of them that sometimes I go to my storage and discover a driver that I do not even remember I had. I perfectly understand that with Macondo I would never use any “saved for future” drivers but still when I come across to an interesting driver would then some idiotic forces with me made me to buy them. I was asking about the fabric-suspended Görlichs BUT I was wondering: do I really need it? Women buying their 4345534th pair of shoes that they never were perhaps feel the same way but I am not a compulsive shoe-shopping woman but a man that (I hope!) has more rational in my head. So, I think I would pass to learn more about the fabric-suspended Görlichs. I do admit that it might be very interesting driver but… I would live to other the opportunity to discover this direction further. I just see not need of it for myself…