Can’t wait to see the results. My wife is planning on expanding her coffee roasting business and is talking about me constructing an incredible sound system for the planned cafe retail space. I showed her the plans for a meter-long midbass horn (see attached) and she has already given me the green light. Hopefully the ATH and midbass horn will be a happy marriage.
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Yeah, that was my idea as well.
The crowdfunding approach is safe in the sense that if not enough money is collected for the goal, everyone is returned their amount back and it simply won't happen. So there's really no limit on what projects are started - at least it could be tried.
Sounds like a plan. Not sure if you've been on other forums as well. I think there is a big enough market between here, AVS forums, Audio Science Review, homecinema-fr, and others I don't frequent.
You're right about not agreeing on a driver. A universal model would still be a lot better than the alternatives.
These would be fun to combine with open baffle woofers as well.
I would buy four in the first batch.
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There is one nice candidate that has been around a while, and will allow for a lower crossover.
The BMS 4550 http://www.bmsspeakers.com/fileadmi...te/bms_4550_2011-04_hf_compression_driver.pdf
It’s not really expensive either.
I do both, most PA applications would want horns that can be baffle mounted and have differing HxV dispersion (due to reflections). In general off-axis is as important as on axis in PA so quite often there are sound quality sacrificing design choices like diffraction slots. Although there are some freestanding horn systems from Void, in general they are hard to transport and array. There is a lack of suitable large horns for 1.4" coaxial compression drivers though:
Suggested Design: 15SW100 / DCX464 / ME464 Point Source - YouTube
that is true, but you started this journey and all of us followed to get best possible WG for a given CD and to minimize use of EQs. And after all effort given (first of all yours, I am exhausted when see how many pages thread has
) I think that WG should be done with smallest amount of compromise.Finally there is a lot of CDs with wide exit angles so you can pick what you like and make it for it, everybody else can use that CD or whatever he/she want.
Or you can pick up a few and we will make voting.
I attached list of CDs with exit angles. I did not do measurement, but I think they are correct. A least it is some guidance.