Te intention was to mold large horns like my double 18" bass horns in two pieces. I did mold many small mid and high horns on that press and ended up doing mostly development work with Bayer Material Science on new materials and applications. Missie parts, medical applications, automotive parts, advanced composite parts like you are now seeing on the new I-series of BMW. I did with one other company the advanced composites work that is what you see today on those cars. I almost made the composite parts for the Viper but they wanted me to move to the Mid-West and I didn't want to do that. I did many first with that press. I did all the test panels for Bayer as my press had better tolerances than their in house press was capable of at the time. The deflection on that press at maximum pressure was 0.005". One of a kind press. That press molded about 20,000 parts for JBL.
ps. The speakers that look like chess pieces I molded on that press.
ps. The speakers that look like chess pieces I molded on that press.
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flexing stuff
Claus Futtrup is one of my goto gurus on loudspeakers.
Toadsquirming ahead
Scientific papers and more :
Home of cfuttrup
Claus Futtrup is one of my goto gurus on loudspeakers.
Toadsquirming ahead
Scientific papers and more :
Home of cfuttrup
I was inspired to wander around YouTube to hear how the Klipsch Cornwall sounded, plenty of examples demonstrating that badly driven they're not too pleasant, but a few showing where one can get, this is the sort of thing I'm after:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yv80cfhjH6k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HepYC7XRkJg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNTxytxc9Ak
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HepYC7XRkJg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yv80cfhjH6k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HepYC7XRkJg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNTxytxc9Ak
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HepYC7XRkJg
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Kindhornman,
I just today understood that was your horn speaker, though I used to think
it was a chess piece and you were a chess master. That is until I saw the
larger pic of it.
As far as places to live, California is most definitely better than Detroit,
Michigan. If you don't know any better It's okay. Or have family
already there. The sun rarely shines in the winter. In summer, well
one summer when I was there, the sun came out when I went to
California for vacation. : )
I just today understood that was your horn speaker, though I used to think
it was a chess piece and you were a chess master. That is until I saw the
larger pic of it.
As far as places to live, California is most definitely better than Detroit,
Michigan. If you don't know any better It's okay. Or have family
already there. The sun rarely shines in the winter. In summer, well
one summer when I was there, the sun came out when I went to
California for vacation. : )
That horn for the mids is just to small to match up with that 15" bass speaker, that means the bass driver is just covering to wide a range. A bigger mid horn would help a lot here. I just don't understand how Klipsch could get some things so wrong.
Sync,
Yes I just couldn't get my head around moving to Detroit. I think I made the right decision, the auto industry was in a shambles for to long and now Chrysler isn't even an American company. At one time the plan was to move to one of the islands in Hawaii and just make small runs of speakers to sell to the rich locals and tourist. Perhaps I may still do that some day.
Sync,
Yes I just couldn't get my head around moving to Detroit. I think I made the right decision, the auto industry was in a shambles for to long and now Chrysler isn't even an American company. At one time the plan was to move to one of the islands in Hawaii and just make small runs of speakers to sell to the rich locals and tourist. Perhaps I may still do that some day.
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How can you tell from that? or Those.
Music on youtube typically depends on the mic used.
Use a quality mic and it will sound good.
Use a crummy computer mic...well it is what it is.
A wise old tech explained it to me like this. If you are a musician,
band director, or make music you like the Klipsch Cornwall's.
If you want the audience experience you'll want something else.
It actually defines how we listen and it falls into these to
broad categories: music maker or audience.
Once that is understood then is helps all of use who love
music know how to approach each other or our customer
and what they looking for. If those are confused or muddled
we end up making or giving the wrong thing or wrong advice.
It also helps us be tolerant and understand those who's needs
are different than our own.
Vanilla ?
Chocolate ?
Anything in between.
I don't know. The guy is selling I think 2 inch drivers or larger.
but are they pricey...Like more than the price of the whole speakers.
At least what I paid for them.
Maybe the guy is on to something. I think I have the link, just didn't
want to post something about someone I've not tried out personally
or know some very reliable people who have.
Here is the LINK.
Then it is in the Klipsch and Cornwall.
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Hiten,
That looks like an obvious attempt to stiffen the cone with those raised sections around the cone.
Sync,
the driver may work that you already have but the horn itself is going to have a very high cutoff frequency. If it is a bolt on driver you have many other horns you could use. If it is a screw on driver I think that DDS in Washington I think would make a horn that you could use a screw on driver. I would want a much larger horn to go with a 15" driver.
Where are you located, the Blues make me think New Orleans?
That looks like an obvious attempt to stiffen the cone with those raised sections around the cone.
Sync,
the driver may work that you already have but the horn itself is going to have a very high cutoff frequency. If it is a bolt on driver you have many other horns you could use. If it is a screw on driver I think that DDS in Washington I think would make a horn that you could use a screw on driver. I would want a much larger horn to go with a 15" driver.
Where are you located, the Blues make me think New Orleans?
I'm in Tejas, a.k.a. Texas.
And to keep the thread topic, I could use the speakers with
the Blowtorch pre amplifier.
Even I didn't think I could do it, but I did.
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Hiten,
scanspeaks are covered in a Audioholics thread, on Zaph SR71
the uniQs are a slightly different animal.
Kef knows all there is to know about them.
scanspeaks are covered in a Audioholics thread, on Zaph SR71
the uniQs are a slightly different animal.
Kef knows all there is to know about them.
Check out a few other YouTube videos using the Cornwall, it's quite easy to pick the poor quality ones - easiest is to go by vocals, gives it away every time; even the crummiest microphone in a YouTube video does a very good capture of the voices of live people who happen to be chatting, etc, in the background. When the vocals on a recording that's being played on a system come in on a typical clip recording such, the voices are obviously 'fake' - have a bloated, shouty quality.
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Sounds to me like that sort of audience is too used to crap sound reinforcement setups 😛 ... save me from mediocre sound ... !
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Frank, all that I can say from the last clip is that I was teaching that to
my little girl. How to walk like that recently.
I found this I like. LINK
This link is not as good to me. Kind of thin. LINK
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2w3biYzyWA
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Both I had had a look at, the Eagles was a 'Hmmm ...' - there were losses in the quality.
And the Pioneer was dead hopeless,
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