You might want to post the same
questions on this forum..
http://www.audioasylum.com/forums/pi/bbs.html
See if Wayne can give you some tips
since he has real experience with
bass horns.
Wayne's pi speakers, some are
bass horns, some are not.
http://www.pispeakers.com/
BTW, he likes JBl drivers.....
The problem with bass horns is...
the lower the frequency you want,
the larger the horn will be. Low
frequency horns are huge. Wayne
says his big horns are only provide
acoustical gain down to 40hz..
(ask him to make sure)...
If you wanted to make a high sensitivity system without the use
of horns, then the design becomes
much easier to implement, but the
driver cost is substantially higher.
I've been "2 year" questing for drivers
for my crazy project, a high sensitivity
design, high impact sound system without using horns.
This is what I picked;
1. Stage Accompany SA8535 planar,
103db sensitivity $600 ea.
2. PHL 2520 8" midrange, 100db
sensitivity $169 ea.
3. Lambda TD15 series, in my
case Apollo version $409 ea.
One amplifier channel per driver.
For midrange and tweeter you
can drive then with low powered
amplification if need be, or you
can connect these drivers to
hundreds of watts of solid state
power. I've tested all those drivers
with a bridged 600w amplifier
and have not toasted any of them.
If you want a standard 3 way
speaker design that can give
you incredible sonic impact,
without using horns, this setup
is ear candy for me.
It's not as pretty as horn designs,
but it delivers the goods sonically.
Those tweeters and midrange above
would easily work with a few watts
of tube amplification, but the Lambda
would need more power.
Another interesting design is line
arrays, even something like this can
give you insane sonics.
http://www.madisound.com/cgi-bin/discuss.cgi?read=244379
Rick Craig's Excelarrays are also
interesting.
Ear candy for me;
1. Horns designs are cool.
2. Simple 3 way with said drivers
above are excellent.
3. Jim's budget oriented "Linus" or "Linus II" arrays.
4. Rick's Excelarrays using newform ribbon and Seas drivers.
5. Nick@Lambda use to sell
Unity horns.. coupled with TD
Lambda's, very punishing sound
system.
http://www.lambdacoustics.com/unity.html
You'll never enter an exotic home
stereo store again after listening
to this stuff......
questions on this forum..
http://www.audioasylum.com/forums/pi/bbs.html
See if Wayne can give you some tips
since he has real experience with
bass horns.
Wayne's pi speakers, some are
bass horns, some are not.
http://www.pispeakers.com/
BTW, he likes JBl drivers.....
The problem with bass horns is...
the lower the frequency you want,
the larger the horn will be. Low
frequency horns are huge. Wayne
says his big horns are only provide
acoustical gain down to 40hz..
(ask him to make sure)...
If you wanted to make a high sensitivity system without the use
of horns, then the design becomes
much easier to implement, but the
driver cost is substantially higher.
I've been "2 year" questing for drivers
for my crazy project, a high sensitivity
design, high impact sound system without using horns.
This is what I picked;
1. Stage Accompany SA8535 planar,
103db sensitivity $600 ea.
2. PHL 2520 8" midrange, 100db
sensitivity $169 ea.
3. Lambda TD15 series, in my
case Apollo version $409 ea.
One amplifier channel per driver.
For midrange and tweeter you
can drive then with low powered
amplification if need be, or you
can connect these drivers to
hundreds of watts of solid state
power. I've tested all those drivers
with a bridged 600w amplifier
and have not toasted any of them.
If you want a standard 3 way
speaker design that can give
you incredible sonic impact,
without using horns, this setup
is ear candy for me.
It's not as pretty as horn designs,
but it delivers the goods sonically.
Those tweeters and midrange above
would easily work with a few watts
of tube amplification, but the Lambda
would need more power.
Another interesting design is line
arrays, even something like this can
give you insane sonics.
http://www.madisound.com/cgi-bin/discuss.cgi?read=244379
Rick Craig's Excelarrays are also
interesting.
Ear candy for me;
1. Horns designs are cool.
2. Simple 3 way with said drivers
above are excellent.
3. Jim's budget oriented "Linus" or "Linus II" arrays.
4. Rick's Excelarrays using newform ribbon and Seas drivers.
5. Nick@Lambda use to sell
Unity horns.. coupled with TD
Lambda's, very punishing sound
system.
http://www.lambdacoustics.com/unity.html
You'll never enter an exotic home
stereo store again after listening
to this stuff......