It looks very much like what Peavy did with their quadratic waveguides:
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Scott, I know all about those, It was my waveguide and an older Nathan design. I do not think the Nathans are the right comparison model anyways since the horn is getting too small. 12" Abbey designs should be the minimum for comparing.
When I started discussions over 2 years ago on AVS (first one to have a big thread on that topic there) asking about waveguides the general opinion from almost everyone was to just go buy the Abbey Kits from Geddes because those are the ultimate waveguide designs.
Fast forward to this discussion and Im reading "QSC horns have fewer problems then Geddes OS WG design".
So color me very confused today about all this opinion.
btw, Im not against any QSC recommendation period. I probably bought the most QSCs out of everyone. I think QSC thought I was some pro audio rep or something, some interesting emails from them. As for the XT1464, I still want to build/hear Paul W's raptor design and I still want to try that HUGE IWATA horn from Jzagaga....
When I started discussions over 2 years ago on AVS (first one to have a big thread on that topic there) asking about waveguides the general opinion from almost everyone was to just go buy the Abbey Kits from Geddes because those are the ultimate waveguide designs.
Fast forward to this discussion and Im reading "QSC horns have fewer problems then Geddes OS WG design".
So color me very confused today about all this opinion.
btw, Im not against any QSC recommendation period. I probably bought the most QSCs out of everyone. I think QSC thought I was some pro audio rep or something, some interesting emails from them. As for the XT1464, I still want to build/hear Paul W's raptor design and I still want to try that HUGE IWATA horn from Jzagaga....
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Thinking More about Paul W's work I just read this from him on AVS
That would be an awesome new waveguide to get duplicated 😉
Post is here.
Best horn/waveguide for a 1.4" exit CD? - AVS Forum
That would be an awesome new waveguide to get duplicated 😉
Post is here.
Best horn/waveguide for a 1.4" exit CD? - AVS Forum
My search isnt helping me find that post. Do you have the link so I can maybe test the same myself?
Thanks!! I do remember it now.
I also remember I was thinking how to build a baffle with that foam inserted into the baffle...Im still thinking how. 😕 Its got to look as good as it sounds for where I have them sitting.
I also remember I was thinking how to build a baffle with that foam inserted into the baffle...Im still thinking how. 😕 Its got to look as good as it sounds for where I have them sitting.
Because it is only 10" vertical height and yields a respectable +/- 15° or larger (-6 dB) forward vertical lobe when crossed between 1.0 and 1.5 kHz.
The cost, the aesthetics, and the unresolved vertical polar question.
Read the "Horn vs. Waveguide" thread again; Earl's standard at that time was the predecessor to Abbey, and in some respects, the comparative results were surprising. Duke independently selected the Pyle clone of the original JBL EconoWaveguide for his Prisms after doing considerable research and evaluation of available alternatives. It does not suck, and by one view of Brandon's data, the QSC offers equivalent pattern control performance with the additional benefit of a mouth roundover.
Look, I have no desire to drive Earl out of what is essentially his own thread here -- we have been through this analysis many times over in several forums. We are all navigating the same course with different tool kits, is all, and in my view, with a common purpose, from this larger perspective, merely pals holding each others' feet to the fire.... 🙂
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..and it's not even much of a "fire".
While it's easy to point out flaws in any particular design, the real question is what is practical for each individual.
I still think that Earl's products fulfill a need at an objective level that isn't being provided from any other source.
Many of your econowave designs have different compromises, but by and large the most determinative difference is that the none of the econowaves are *complete* "kits" (..at least that I'm aware of). In that respect for people wanting everything "sorted-out" in a relatively uncomplicated package - Earl still has his market. And the early expressed sentiment of: "the general opinion from almost everyone was to just go buy the Abbey Kits from Geddes because those are the ultimate waveguide designs", largely remains true.
EconoWave is not a "business," rather, an open-format collaborative, by design affording degrees of freedom for DIYers. In this sense, we are not competitors, and I can make a strong argument that what we do serves in large measure to advance the interests of others selling actual product. Yes, we do offer a PC board implementing a rudimentary version of Wayne Parham's Pi-Speakers crossover topology for $20 a pair, but that's the extent of any economic interest.
During this past year, I have posted a dozen different designs with complete crossover schematics and parts lists, covering a fairly wide spectrum of options:
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World class? Doubtful -- some are decidedly better than others, and you can see us still learning the "ropes" there, but in keeping with the spirit of discovery for which EconoWave is renowned, more specific perspectives defining a process via which others having similar interests might proceed....
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Yes, basically, but the conventional polar plot does not reveal intrusion of the vertical nulls. Look at the directivity map to see that.
Nathan's C/C distance is somewhat wider than is achievable even with the QSC 152i. Frankly, I was surprised to see how low Nathan is crossed to produce a reasonable-height vertical lobe. Earl concedes the Nathan waveguide is too small....
Nathan's C/C distance is somewhat wider than is achievable even with the QSC 152i. Frankly, I was surprised to see how low Nathan is crossed to produce a reasonable-height vertical lobe. Earl concedes the Nathan waveguide is too small....
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I still would like to see more comparisons using the Abbey instead. I think its very unfair to the discussion to use the nathan.
Exactly.
In a broad sense they are direct competitors, but how many DIY'ers are willing to spend 2-4 k on a kit? Alternatively, how many are willing to spend the time necessary to select and then build an econowave version if they could otherwise afford a to spend 2-4k on a kit?
Similar designs, yet very different "markets" (for commercial gain or not).
Good post 😀
Sorry no can do...I will never own a pair but when/if I get an OS 12" WG would you like one sent to you??
The direct competition i see is the OS waveguide which is not available vs all types of horns that are avaialble. Nothing else really is all that important to the discussion.
If an 12" OS Waveguide sold for $15 somewhere Im pretty sure there would be a Econo version of it. Considering Zilch has done amazing work already with so many other waveguide choices.
I also think there isnt enough difference for the $4K kit price tag, I remember a waveguide/XO/driver option way back being close to $1K for a pair though, times have changed 😉 This is DIY we build products that match comercial choices at the fraction of the MSRP of those product just because our time is free and our finish costs are seldom included....we like to ignore the real costs of our builds 😀 In the end though my "hidden" costs for my first set of DIY waveguides was around $10K if I was to charge back my time based on my consulting rate in business.
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