Enjoying this thread!
Since Covid shut pretty much everything down a year ago, I needed a hobby.
(Idle hands are the devil’s workshop...)
So I’ve been building a lot of speakers. The bulk of which have been full range drivers. These run the full gamut from simple vented book shelf speakers, folded horns, pencils, voigt pipes, BIB enclosures (1/2 wave Horn) and really big double horns.
There really is something special to my ears that comes from a big a$$ed horn speaker. Are they compromised? Sure they are, what speakers are not? The big double horns have so much “breath” in the sound, so much air . Sound is very unique, and people seem to either love em, or... As an experiment, my friend bought an old Heathkit 8 watt EL84 based integrated. Synergy was insane. They worked so well together! Such a pleasure to listen to.
Im a fan of the single driver horn speaker. And as was mentioned by someone earlier in this thread, my hearing stops working somewhere around 13khz, so doesn’t really matter much what happens after that. Though I suspect my cat has other feelings on that subject...
Have not felt as though I was missing much in the bass. But I’m not playing organ music, or watching movies, so not really too concerned about what happens below 40hz
For comparatively little money, and a bit of elbow grease, not that difficult to build and there are some interesting designs out there. Two drivers, some decent plywood, glue and some tools, you can experiment...
https://www.frugal-horn.com/downloads/SpawnHorn-v2-planset-181117.pdf
Since Covid shut pretty much everything down a year ago, I needed a hobby.
(Idle hands are the devil’s workshop...)
So I’ve been building a lot of speakers. The bulk of which have been full range drivers. These run the full gamut from simple vented book shelf speakers, folded horns, pencils, voigt pipes, BIB enclosures (1/2 wave Horn) and really big double horns.
There really is something special to my ears that comes from a big a$$ed horn speaker. Are they compromised? Sure they are, what speakers are not? The big double horns have so much “breath” in the sound, so much air . Sound is very unique, and people seem to either love em, or... As an experiment, my friend bought an old Heathkit 8 watt EL84 based integrated. Synergy was insane. They worked so well together! Such a pleasure to listen to.
Im a fan of the single driver horn speaker. And as was mentioned by someone earlier in this thread, my hearing stops working somewhere around 13khz, so doesn’t really matter much what happens after that. Though I suspect my cat has other feelings on that subject...
Have not felt as though I was missing much in the bass. But I’m not playing organ music, or watching movies, so not really too concerned about what happens below 40hz
For comparatively little money, and a bit of elbow grease, not that difficult to build and there are some interesting designs out there. Two drivers, some decent plywood, glue and some tools, you can experiment...
https://www.frugal-horn.com/downloads/SpawnHorn-v2-planset-181117.pdf