Herman, The tweeters a horn Fostex t500amk2 , mids horn, midbass horn and the bass system is a 8ft tall back loaded bass horn. If you want full front loading of bass into infra sound as this horn does it would be 25ft l by 25 w.
Why not horns?
I've owned a lot of speakers over the years but I have never experienced anything like the midrange reproduction from my horns. With a frequency response of 300 Hz. up to 14 Khz. from a single distortionless driver, it seems like a no-brainer that everyone would want this performance. Why don't you use horns?
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Horns were the dominant speaker technology for many years, probably due to the unavailability of reasonably priced high out-put amplification. Once reasonably priced high-out-put amplification became available, horns became less popular. Now that there has been a resurgence in the popularity of low powered amplification, the popularity of horns has increased. IMHO, the recent popularity of horns has more to do with accommodating certain amplification choices, than with any inherent superiority horns might have unto themselves. |
Lots of impressive horn setups on this site. This may be the most impressive set of horns I have seen here: http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?vaslt&1225733731 |
Johnk - Since you know what you are talking about, it would be helpful if you would explain your points rather than just issuing pronouncements that people like me cannot understand. Why would a front loaded bass horn need to be 25 x 25? Why is this not true of a rear loaded horn? How is it that horns can be designed to operate at less than 10 ft. listening distance? Would this horn be front loaded? Part of the reason I started this thread was a hope that doing so might clear up a lot of the confusion and misunderstanding surrounding horns. |
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