Acoustic Horn Design – The Easy Way (Ath4)

What do you think about this one?
Eminence N151 240 wide, in an enclosure. To be used with a 8" driver in a two way down to 1,5 kHz. I was hoping to use a Le Cleach crossover to mitigate some of the driver distance problems and EQ on my raspberry streamer. Basically my own JBL 708P.
Resolution is not fine enough for 10k upwards, but i try to avoid running anything beyond 3000 elements on my laptop.
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Hi Marcel and Earl,
Thanks for the wealth of information both of you have provided in this thread. I want to make sure I understand the definitions you are both using for waveguide diameter.

For example, Earl, when you say that the NS15 has an 18" waveguide with a 6" radius to the baffle, 18" diameter is the max diameter at the point the waveguide meets the cabinet. So the diameter where the waveguide is still the OS profile before the roundover starts is around 9.5", correct?

Marcel, likewise, when you reference waveguide diameter, you mean the total (max) diameter including any rollback or mouth termination, correct?

thanks,
Dan
 
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For long I also thought about some (better) standardized mounting and I think I've finally came up with something usable -
(Just ignore the waveguide split into three parts, that wasn't a very good idea. Two halves are good - as seen above.)

The LF extension is now made cylindrical at the end, so by inserting different lenghts of a straight duct it should be easily possible to "tune" it for a particular driver used - at least that's the idea at the moment.

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The LF extension is now made cylindrical at the end, so by inserting different lenghts of a straight duct it should be easily possible to "tune" it for a particular driver used - at least that's the idea at the moment.

That's a nice feature. As a common horn people will be able to share their ducts for various drivers. Certainly the most popular drivers people tend to use.
 
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BTW, for those who have it, here's a ring plug for ROSSO-65CDN-T, making it effectively a 1-inch-exit driver. Then it should be perfectly usable with waveguides like the one above (a bigger one is also in the making). I've printed it (and tested the fit) with a 0.25 mm nozzle. Didn't try anything else. No acoustic measurements on my side so far, that's still to come.

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https://at-horns.eu/ext/T-Ring-SB-ROSSO-65CDN-T.zip
 
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I'm still improving the geometry, it's now better than ever. Some new things, I just don't have the time for reporting. I hope to provide a new STL kit soon.

⌀280mm extended waveguide -

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Beautiful. I wonder if the 280mm geometry would allow it to be printed as a 1/2 diagonally across the bed of my very basic Ender 3 pro (with a 220mm x 220mm print surface - with a hypotenuse of 311mm).