Good, Affordable Horns?

Mapman, I am assuming your question is related to bass augmentation of the rear wall/corners.

My personal experience is that they work best about 5 to 6 feet from the rear wall. They most certainly don’t need a corner or rear wall to augment the bass – I actually used a little poly-fill in the horn to dampen the bass a little. Even now my friends as me where I hide the sub.

I do have a pair of single mouthed KCS BLH speakers based on the Fostex 126E driver (as used in the Ty-Bone) which also seemed to work best about 5 feet from the rear wall, so I am pretty sure that Jeff’s Ty-Bone would not need to be placed in the corners.

I auditioned the Ty-Bone and it was a close call for me to go with the Madisons. The main reasons I went with Madison is that I already had a 126E based speaker and I really needed something a little more efficient.

If your layout does force you to put the speakers close to the rear wall or corners you can easily tune the bass down a little if you feel you need to using poly-fill.

Regards
Paul

Thanks Pauly. They sound fabulous.. Enjoy!

Mapman, after reading another post of yours(why not horns), I want to say that the Klipsch Lascala(with my cabinet mods to eliminate any box ringing,as stated by another), is so close to doing so many wonderful things that conveys the true essence of music, that they may be the "as close to perfect" of a horn speaker, particularly at their used prices and reasonable size......again, this is my opinion, having owned a lot of speakers and listening to much much more over the years......thank you....Mrd

Oxymoron? Just kidding.

Unsound, it is people like you that I feel do unjust to forums. Read my last post on "Why not horns".