Room Walls as waveguides?

[60ndown]

Has anyone ever tried mounting a driver/s to a baffle, and mounting that baffle into the corner of the room on the wall, so the corner of the room is the box and the walls themselves become a wave guide?

im want to fill a 'whole room' with sweet full range sound, not have 1 dedicated listening position with a 3D image.

any thoughts on my "corner mounted wave guide" idea?

[c2cthomas]

Take a look at William's web-site for a similar idea.
William Cowan's Homepage

Look at the Unity, the Finale

[60ndown]

cool thanks


Soffit mounting is a technique used regularly in recording studios. It eliminates the baffle step associated with having a pair of speakers sitting out in the room. The radiation angle at low frequencies is confined to 90 degrees in the horizontal plane. The Unity horns also have a radiation angle which is around 90 degrees at the crossover frequency, narrowing to 60 degrees up higher. Having a speaker system with essentially the same radiation angle at all frequencies guarantees a flat power response. This can clearly be heard when walking around the listening room, and indeed the whole house. Apart from a reduction in exteme treble, the sound essentially doesn't change as you walk around the house.

[60ndown]

im doing it with CSS el70s and a sub

[c2cthomas]

Originally Posted by 60ndown

Soffit mounting is a technique used regularly in recording studios.

Yeh - I have bad dreams about doing something like William has done - and then a few months later SWMBO sez - honey - I want to rearrange the furniture.

[60ndown]

Originally Posted by c2cthomas

Yeh - I have bad dreams about doing something like William has done - and then a few months later SWMBO sez - honey - I want to rearrange the furniture.

wouldnt matter

"This can clearly be heard when walking around the listening room, and indeed the whole house. Apart from a reduction in exteme treble, the sound essentially doesn't change as you walk around the house"


do it

[c2cthomas]

Originally Posted by 60ndown

wouldnt matter

1) I'm not sure if you are familiar with GRITS - Girls Raised In The South
2) I'm pretty sure that you are not familiar with SWMBO - born and bred in Nashville + is a spoiled Doctors brat.

3) The combination of #1+ #2 is - hmmmmmmm - let me say that it can represent a considerable challenge to counter on a long term basis. AND there WILL BE payback involved at some point. Fortunately for me I am at and older and wiser point in my life where I don't give a rat's behind.

[60ndown]

hump??...what hump?

[DaveCan]

When I read "Soffit mounting" I was expecting something totally different, these are not soffit mounted at all, but still cool nonetheless

Soffit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[chrisb]

Originally Posted by c2cthomas

1) I'm not sure if you are familiar with GRITS - Girls Raised In The South
2) I'm pretty sure that you are not familiar with SWMBO - born and bred in Nashville + is a spoiled Doctors brat.

3) The combination of #1+ #2 is - hmmmmmmm - let me say that it can represent a considerable challenge to counter on a long term basis. AND there WILL BE payback involved at some point. Fortunately for me I am at and older and wiser point in my life where I don't give a rat's behind.

and they keep us around, even after our gamete donation to the future generation - perhaps it's pity / charity?