Acoustic Horn Design – The Easy Way (Ath4)

Perhaps do a recording? Like use a pair of horns with the same drivers, EQed flat. Play a sweep in horn A while horn B is connected to the mic input of a sound card... ?
What it would tell us?

- I think this would need an anechoic chamber to assess the actual effect on perception. To record the picked-up signal and then mix it with the original signal for testing. Sounds a) like a lot of work and b) I don't have the chamber 🙂 (If it could be simulated like this at all.)

Well, maybe headphones would suffice. :scratch2:
 
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"I don't have a clue how significant it is. During playback in a room, there will be a lot of pretty loud sounds reaching the diaphragm, which are all correlated to the signal"

If one would like to know the impact of the suspected effect in a stereo setup - the test should be made in that setup, no chambers..., the effort should only be to hook in the speaker of one channel to an ADC and and perform a measure. Perhaps a second sweep with a mic in the same position as the "speaker-mic" to asess what the sonic stimuli was at the speaker (mic!) entrance.

A fun test!? And perhaps telling.

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if that would cause any issue, it would have shown up in the last century or so. Especially PA systems with high SPL would then be affected but it is not as it seems.
Here's an anecdote from Dave Rat of Rat Sound that suggests that it can be a problem. To what extent it might affect systems at levels typical of domestic use I don't know, but it does seem terribly unlikely that it'd be very significant.

I can also imagine that you've never seen this in the impedances of your waveguides
FWIW, I see similar wiggles with my 15 inch OS-clothoid waveguides, though the effect is less pronounced than what you measured. I've also seen this when measuring high efficiency woofers in sealed enclosures.
 
Hi, first time here. I've bought the Triotini_XS files for a DFM2535 build. The Horn has been printed, but I'm confused about choosing the flange type. I'm using FreecAD to view the files but can't make out how it fits.

Can someone help, please?
Here's the flange that goes with the Tritonia-XS.
 

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FWIW, I see similar wiggles with my 15 inch OS-clothoid waveguides, though the effect is less pronounced than what you measured. I've also seen this when measuring high efficiency woofers in sealed enclosures.
I've ever seen this only with longish-throat ("high loading") horns. Never in a rapidly opening waveguide -


(We are talking about a possible audible distortion here, on the levels even tens of dB under the source signal. This is always highly dependent on the form of the distortion - from inaudible to annoying).
 
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