Conical horns whos using them and your opinion

I was going to build some prototypes. Then I read about the need for further crossover work with conical use and that project went on the back burner. I'm pretty happy with my tratrix salad bowls so I haven't had much motivation to revisit them.

The correction isn't much of a issue just the narrow bandwidth necessitates multiple conicals to cover range that other flares handle. Still I find the imaging to be better the sense of loudspeaker disappearing presenting a sound field is also bettered over other types I've used.

Johnk, how are they with respect to beaminess?

Johnk, you probably already know this, but my suggestion would be: Don't equalize the on-axis dip you get in the treble region. It's an artifact of the in-phase mouth reflection; it moves up or down in frequency as you move the microphone closer or farther away, and it disappears once you're off-axis by 15 degrees or so. Just listen from off axis anyway and the mouth reflection dip becomes totally inconsequential.

Ralph, in my experience, conicals and quasi-conicals beam less than exponential or tractrix horns, and in trade-off require a more complex crossover. Several of my models use what conical guru Bill Woods has described as a "conical horn", including the Stormbringers that made a stop at your place a while back.

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