I've been following a lot of threads on this board for a few months, and I really have myself set on building a tapped horn with the Dayton PA380-8 drivers. There is so much useful information on this website, and I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around it. I'm doing my best to learn hornresp, but I use linux, and it crashes on me a lot while I try to run it under wine.
Anyways, perhaps some of you who are more skilled than I can direct me towards which of the tapped horns would work best with the dayton drivers? I'm not a terribly skilled woodworker, but I'm sure I could put together the SS15 or the JBell mini TH cubes, or even the stadium horns if that is recommended. I have a cargo van to move everything with.
My use of the subs would be for live sound, mainly in a 150-200 person capacity room. There is the occasional 300+ gig, but thats maybe one a year. I am looking to add the subs for kick drum and some low end for the bass, so I don't think I need it to go terribly low. I'm more concerned about efficiency and SPL.
I already have a Yorkville AP2020 amp which would give me 700 watts per side at 4ohm. I plan on purchasing a DCX2496 or a used DBX driverack to set the system up with. I would be using everything under a set of community tops I already own, but am hoping to eventually build JBell's HS12 tops as well.
I'm hoping to make some sawdust over the weekend. Thanks for any advice.
Anyways, perhaps some of you who are more skilled than I can direct me towards which of the tapped horns would work best with the dayton drivers? I'm not a terribly skilled woodworker, but I'm sure I could put together the SS15 or the JBell mini TH cubes, or even the stadium horns if that is recommended. I have a cargo van to move everything with.
My use of the subs would be for live sound, mainly in a 150-200 person capacity room. There is the occasional 300+ gig, but thats maybe one a year. I am looking to add the subs for kick drum and some low end for the bass, so I don't think I need it to go terribly low. I'm more concerned about efficiency and SPL.
I already have a Yorkville AP2020 amp which would give me 700 watts per side at 4ohm. I plan on purchasing a DCX2496 or a used DBX driverack to set the system up with. I would be using everything under a set of community tops I already own, but am hoping to eventually build JBell's HS12 tops as well.
I'm hoping to make some sawdust over the weekend. Thanks for any advice.
At a glance, with a high Vas, low Fs and Xmax it doesn’t make for a very compact, high SQ, peak SPL TH, though somewhat better performance if two drivers or closely couple cabs are used in parallel to get the most out of your amp………
GM
GM
Based on what you say, I would pick up 4 of the PA380-8 and build a pair of 2x15" ported cabs. If you're mainly concerned about kick, ported boxes will have better sound in the midbass without needing time alignment.
GM, I was planning on building four cabs, two per side. I thought this would be better than one cab per side with different drivers. Maybe I'm wrong on that. Are their better drivers in the $140-150 a piece price range that I'd be better building two cabs instead of four cabs with the dayton drivers?
turbodawg, If I go with ported boxes, would four single 15" cabs work as well as two 2x15s? I would imagine it would. It would be a lot easier for me to move that way.
turbodawg, If I go with ported boxes, would four single 15" cabs work as well as two 2x15s? I would imagine it would. It would be a lot easier for me to move that way.
Hi,
Not an answer for your question.. But if targeting SQ and a reasonable lower end BW concerning the short xmax + long healthy Driver life expectance instead over 😱 SPL and 😡 efficiency..
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