Why not horns?

Pdprez, good call - I hadn't made a mental distinction between "horn system top-to-bottom" and "horn system over part of the spectrum". And your understanding of my designs is correct; you also get extra points for coming up with the right name for one of them!

I have no hands-on design experience with top-to-bottom horn systems, and would think that they'd be far more difficult to do well. I'm too chicken to even try.

Weseixas, a waveguide (as Earl uses the term) is a type of horn optimized for low coloration and well-controlled off-axis radiation characteristics. If you're willing to distinguish a Geddes-style waveguide from the rest of the horn world, then you and I are quite likely to end up on the same side here. And what fun would that be??

Cheers,

Duke

From Geddes :

The waveguide features a state of the art HOMLess Refractive Waveguide PlugTM which minimizes high order modes which cause colorations.

I'm on the side of good sound Dukey !

Earls science is pretty big, hard to match him there , but this is audio, there are fundamental things that i do disagree
with Dr Geddes on and until i do get a taste of his soup i will hold on to such.

regards,

I use a Geddes-style waveguide on most of my designs, but it's not the same as the ones he uses. Nor am I using his patented refractive waveguide plug. In my more recent/less expensive models, I'm using what might be called a "waveguide-style horn", which is considerably more of a challenge to get good results from.

If either of you will be at RMAF, come on by my room if you get the chance.

Duke

06-14-10: Audiokinesis:

If either of you will be at RMAF, come on by my room if you get the chance.
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RMAF ? R.eally M.ad A.udio F.arts .. -)

What models are you displaying ?