Tractrix horn

[AuroraB]

There was an aussie guy ( I think..) who had a nice recipe for making your own tractrix horns on his website...
mid to high band that is...

The same guy who had the DIY heatsink cabinets made out of aluminium strips and spacers....

I roughly remember his description, but it would be nice to read it again...but..
now I can't find his pages...

I think this was what was the link Ihad...
http://home.earthlink.net/~lotusblossom/_wsn/page2.html

Any help out there..????

 

[Brett]

That's John Inlow's page. He posts here as 'carpenter' so maybe you could PM him. Nice guy, and he's in the US.

I've built some trax midhorns and will be making another round pair next week, probably 270Hz for a 400Hz xover. What do you want to know?

 

[mikee12345]

duno,
but this guy has made some 400-1.6k tractix beautys

www.geocities.com/adrian_mack/homepage.html

 

[chris ma]

duno,
but this guy has made some 400-1.6k tractix beautys

www.geocities.com/adrian_mack/homepage.html

Hi,
this link causes some sort of system warning with my network, what is it?
Chris

 

[till]

and for me the link shows nothing. only some buttons" undefined / close"

 

[Da5id4Vz]

Brett,

I checked out your homepage hoping to find some information on your horn work. Very disturbing.

-Dave

 

[Brett]

Very disturbing.

Peepels says it a lot about me, but I dunno why

 

[roddyama]

Peepels says it a lot about me, but I dunno why

Do you run a notch filter in your system to keep the walls of your trailer house from resonating (ie. flappin' in the breeze).

 

[mikee12345]

hahah

that adrian_mack website works for me!!!

has tractix 400hz-1.6k using alphas from eminence,

and JBL2370 for HF with p audio comp driver.

good stuff wish i had it/

http://www.geocities.com/adrian_mack/homepage.html

 

[Brett]

Adrian Macks'site only works for me with internet exploder, not with a decent browser, but even so, the trax horn page isn't there.

All his trax mid is, is a similar design to the Edgar rectangular, and it uses a poxy eminence Alpha 6.

 

[mikee12345]

thats strange.
i use OPERA browser when possible.
i opened his site with ie5

..

All his trax mid is, is a similar design to the Edgar rectangular

what were you expecting- a unity horn replacement?


ive seen construction pics-interesting.

poxy

nothing wrong with it.

just because it isnt super expensive

 

[Brett]

If you're going to go to all the effort to make a horn, at least use a decent driver. Decent doesn't mean expensive, it just means good, and it's my opinion that the alpha's are cheap and nasty drivers. An Audax PR170MO would have been a better choice and only $US30 a pair more.

A 2370 isn't that great either IMO/IME, and a trax to 1k6 and an expo above that are going to have on obvious sonic discontinuity.

Now a Unity type horn would be interesting. With enough time, that's probably going to be my project for next year.

 

[mikee12345]

trax to 1k6 and an expo above that are going to have on obvious sonic discontinuity.

in what way.
no more so than a sealed system. dispersion wise?

i know a guy who reckons the unity horn is over rated.

audax-duno if its available down under.but yep,whatever sounds good.if something was wrong with them-then it wud be noticable.especialy on a horn.
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