junkiest PC that'll run horn response?

pjanda1 · 10th July 2009, 02:09 AM

I figure I should probably consider learning how to solve my own enclosure design problems while I ask the advice of those wiser. It sounds like Horn Response is probably the best option for me to simulate things like BVR's and ML Voigts, right? I looked quickly and didn't see system requirements listed on the download page. I'd have to buy a computer to run mostly that program alone, so how decrepit a machine can I get without getting overly frustrated by its speed?

pj

GM · 10th July 2009, 02:45 AM

Good Q, some of the latest enhancements are slow as MathCad to calculate with my P4. Anyway, ask DB on the dedicated HR thread: Hornresp

GM

pjanda1 · 10th July 2009, 02:52 AM

Done. I should get over to the sub forum more often. Especially if I build some smaller mains . . .

pj

rjbond3rd · 10th July 2009, 05:09 AM

I run it on a very, very junky circa-2002 P4 2.0 Ghz with 512 Mb RAM with XP (a machine that I pulled out of a dumpster). Yes, it is very slow, but it works.

pjanda1 · 13th July 2009, 02:04 AM

I bought an old Dell C840 Laptop (P4 2.2Ghz, 512MB). Now I'm a PC too. We needed another laptop anyway. Now all I have to do is learn horn response. . . .

pj

rjbond3rd · 13th July 2009, 02:45 AM

PJ, you will be simulating 10% faster than I will! Here, make dhenryp's HornResp tutorial your new homepage:

BLH example with Hornresp in pictures

I suggest we post newb questions there. By the way, you are moving westward - which state? Surely not as far as New Mexico?

pjanda1 · 13th July 2009, 03:46 AM

Scottsbluff Nebraska: the center of the Panhandle, close to nothin'. Looks like about 8 hrs to Santa Fe. We're hoping to make it down sometime this fall. We meant to get back down there a couple of weeks ago, but that was prior to planning this move.

Thanks for the link to the tutorial. It's going to be a busy next couple of weeks, but hopefully I'll find some time to get busy with it. I need some new boxes.

pj

rjbond3rd · 13th July 2009, 03:58 AM

Hi PJ, good luck with your move, and see you on the newbie HornResp thread. Definitely contact me when you're in Santa Fe. There are lots of hifi nuts here.

grindstone · 13th July 2009, 06:41 AM

hornresp (mostly) works with wine, but it's one of those things that's not so fast in wine.

this week, i went from a 800 cel to ~2.6 dualie (same os & hd actually) and _for_hornresp_only_, it's not that much faster

noticeable, but not quantum-ey like a couple other programs.

too late for pj i know, but in case others had the same Q.

Geek · 13th July 2009, 09:00 AM

I've run that on a 75MHz original Pentium. Just give it enough RAM and it won't crash

10th July 2009, 02:09 AM	#1
pjanda1 diyAudio Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: The Nebraska Panhandle	junkiest PC that'll run horn response? I figure I should probably consider learning how to solve my own enclosure design problems while I ask the advice of those wiser. It sounds like Horn Response is probably the best option for me to simulate things like BVR's and ML Voigts, right? I looked quickly and didn't see system requirements listed on the download page. I'd have to buy a computer to run mostly that program alone, so how decrepit a machine can I get without getting overly frustrated by its speed? pj

10th July 2009, 02:45 AM	#2
GM diyAudio Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Chamblee, Ga.	Good Q, some of the latest enhancements are slow as MathCad to calculate with my P4. Anyway, ask DB on the dedicated HR thread: Hornresp GM __________________ Loud is Beautiful if it's Clean! As always though, the usual disclaimers apply to this post's contents.

13th July 2009, 06:41 AM	#9
grindstone diyAudio Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: GMT-6	FWIW hornresp (mostly) works with wine, but it's one of those things that's not so fast in wine. this week, i went from a 800 cel to ~2.6 dualie (same os & hd actually) and _for_hornresp_only_, it's not that much faster noticeable, but not quantum-ey like a couple other programs. too late for pj i know, but in case others had the same Q.

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10th July 2009, 02:52 AM	#3
pjanda1 diyAudio Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: The Nebraska Panhandle	Done. I should get over to the sub forum more often. Especially if I build some smaller mains . . . pj

10th July 2009, 05:09 AM	#4
rjbond3rd diyAudio Member Join Date: Jan 2007	I run it on a very, very junky circa-2002 P4 2.0 Ghz with 512 Mb RAM with XP (a machine that I pulled out of a dumpster). Yes, it is very slow, but it works.

13th July 2009, 02:04 AM	#5
pjanda1 diyAudio Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: The Nebraska Panhandle	I bought an old Dell C840 Laptop (P4 2.2Ghz, 512MB). Now I'm a PC too. We needed another laptop anyway. Now all I have to do is learn horn response. . . . pj

13th July 2009, 02:45 AM	#6
rjbond3rd diyAudio Member Join Date: Jan 2007	PJ, you will be simulating 10% faster than I will! Here, make dhenryp's HornResp tutorial your new homepage: BLH example with Hornresp in pictures I suggest we post newb questions there. By the way, you are moving westward - which state? Surely not as far as New Mexico?

13th July 2009, 03:46 AM	#7
pjanda1 diyAudio Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: The Nebraska Panhandle	Scottsbluff Nebraska: the center of the Panhandle, close to nothin'. Looks like about 8 hrs to Santa Fe. We're hoping to make it down sometime this fall. We meant to get back down there a couple of weeks ago, but that was prior to planning this move. Thanks for the link to the tutorial. It's going to be a busy next couple of weeks, but hopefully I'll find some time to get busy with it. I need some new boxes. pj

13th July 2009, 03:58 AM	#8
rjbond3rd diyAudio Member Join Date: Jan 2007	Hi PJ, good luck with your move, and see you on the newbie HornResp thread. Definitely contact me when you're in Santa Fe. There are lots of hifi nuts here.

13th July 2009, 09:00 AM	#10
Geek diyAudio Member Join Date: Sep 2004	I've run that on a 75MHz original Pentium. Just give it enough RAM and it won't crash

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