Acoustic Horn Design – The Easy Way (Ath4)

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It seems that once there is some roll back, it's actually pretty hard to make it seriously degraded. There were even attempts to put the waveguide almost against a baffle behind it (or to "dive" it through), without much degradation. Not something I would do or like (the smoothness of DI probably suffers at the lower end) but obviously it's quite immune - again, once there is some rolling back.
 
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Is there really a need for that in this case? Such details can be a pain to print accurately and can easily cause more trouble than they solve, IMHO. I'm not very keen on the idea.

I would first assemble the petals, making a full circle and then attach it to the throat piece. Shouldn't be too difficult.
 
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I hadn't any particular driver in mind, other than the size. The throat angle is 19°, which should work fine with just about anything out there.

I don't know the exit angle of the Peerless DFM2535R00-08 - it will hardly get any better than that, IMO. B&C DE500 was also exemplary. But it's all much more similar than different.
 
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I'm sure this is obvious, but note that you can increase the size of a horn that's printable by just rotating it 45 degrees on the bed.

IE, if your print bed measures 200mm x 200mm, you can print a 282.2mm horn on it by rotating the horn 45 degrees.

Yes, I know. But with the thingy printed for adhesion the 150mm is really more like 140mm. Not much room to rotate.
 
Well well, I stand corrected. It seems to be possible to print the 180deg petal after all.
I´m a total noob whith 3D printing. Studying the slicer slightly more I found a way to fit the thing in to the print area. I didn´t relize that there´s actually 400 parameters and different ways to position the part on the print bed. My history in 3D printing is about 4 weeks . . .