Well, there are lots of bad reviews of anything. Including Alpair 7.3. You are very right to investigate before liking. My expectation is that it will deliver, if it fits your requirements and niche.
Oh yes, please do a FH-15! I have a BIB-inspired parabolic pipehorn running, which I like very much. I would love to see an official frugal design for the Fane 15".
Hah!
Would'nt be mush "frugal" though! :-D
Cost of ply for a proper horn acommodating a 15" automatically equals non-frugal end result. Factor in the values of the Fane 15" and it will probably be even bigger. Maybe one can tame q values down a little bit, but it's not easy.
May be better/easier to crack the ferrite ring and wind a coil there instead, would need some tinkering to get the most optimal magnetic field.
Would'nt be mush "frugal" though! :-D
Cost of ply for a proper horn acommodating a 15" automatically equals non-frugal end result. Factor in the values of the Fane 15" and it will probably be even bigger. Maybe one can tame q values down a little bit, but it's not easy.
May be better/easier to crack the ferrite ring and wind a coil there instead, would need some tinkering to get the most optimal magnetic field.
Let's horn load it the other way around ? Here's a small fullrange driver horn loaded, with an helper woofer: H.A.V.O.F.A.S.T. Studio-H.A.V.O.F.A.S.T. Stu
Great idea!
With the Fane 15" up top I doubt you'll get the same size relation though... Biggest driver I could find that seems to be available for the common man is the Cadence DCXW 34" woofer. I have no idea about the performance.
Cadence DCX34W 34-Inch 10,000 Watt Dual 2 Ohm Subwoofer
Edit:
Here's some more pictures of it:
34'' cadence subwoofer to big? - Subwoofers / Enclosures - A Car Audio Enthusiast Forum :. SMD
With the Fane 15" up top I doubt you'll get the same size relation though... Biggest driver I could find that seems to be available for the common man is the Cadence DCXW 34" woofer. I have no idea about the performance.
Cadence DCX34W 34-Inch 10,000 Watt Dual 2 Ohm Subwoofer
Edit:
Here's some more pictures of it:
34'' cadence subwoofer to big? - Subwoofers / Enclosures - A Car Audio Enthusiast Forum :. SMD
Well, Fs is in the range of drivers for FH-XL. So it wouldn't necessarily be higher/longer horn length. It becomes a matter of matching acoustic impedance and this isn't a straight "five times driver cone area = five times bigger volume."
Maybe it wouldn't fully comply with frugalhorn alignment, but I am sure Scott et al. can work out an interesting backloaded alignment for the Fane 15. I expect they won't, too much work for too few builders. But it would be sooo interesting.
For frontloaded, think Tannoy. Tannoy Truefi for third party idea.
The 15” Fane wants to be in as big a box as you can live with, sealed or aperiodic. The 12” has more usable values.
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