Thanks!
The wood box at the bottom is a front loaded horn with a SB Acoustics 5" woofer in there. Basically a 'snail' type of front loaded horn, similar to layout that Cerwin Vega uses for their 18" horns.
I wound up ditching this project by the way; I found that the imaging was a lot better using the setup that Linkwitz uses, with a single 3" woofer acting as a wideband "tweeter." I used a Fostex FF85WK instead of the SEAS woofer that Linkwitz uses.
Works really well. I think the Tymphany TC9 could work also. I've measured mine, and they're good to 16000hz. Alon Speakers is using them in their new speaker, as a "tweeter."
Cheers Patrick,
Im looking for something to build with my Daughter and wanted to do a compact decent sounding system. will probably use MiniDSP and go 2 way.
do you have any details of the front loaded horn that you put together?
I have some gold edition Fostex FE103 sol that I may use for the top drivers. also have 4 x Peerless 830500s from my old Linkwitz Thors, but they are 12 inch drivers!
I have used some FE103s to build large Cornu spirals that sounded good and also built some Cheap Trick back loaded horns with them for a friend that sounded great as well.
Brad
Im looking for something to build with my Daughter and wanted to do a compact decent sounding system. will probably use MiniDSP and go 2 way.
do you have any details of the front loaded horn that you put together?
I have some gold edition Fostex FE103 sol that I may use for the top drivers. also have 4 x Peerless 830500s from my old Linkwitz Thors, but they are 12 inch drivers!
I have used some FE103s to build large Cornu spirals that sounded good and also built some Cheap Trick back loaded horns with them for a friend that sounded great as well.
Brad
I also had before narrow baffle, 2-way monitors B&W DM302s perform really well in the same space where I now have LXMinis. and this made me wonder if B&Ws would do well if mounted above a large driver, an 8 to-12incher which could perform high enough to maybe pick up some of the lower mid duties. I have some good drivers and if I can bring myself later in the summer to get some sonotube, maybe I will dust those B&Ws off and try it as an experiment 🙄. there should be an opportunity to improve on LXMinis at lower listening levels as well as with more complex musical program where LXMinis start to fall behind.
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just for the record: I added a sub to LXMinis below 60Hz and it integrated really really well with the space; one cannot tell where the bass is coming from and the speakers just sound waay bigger (I suspect it helps that the space has irregular shape and is pretty open);
I must say that the transformation has been amazing!! now LXMinis are capable of playing all music and they have become addictive.
I must say that the transformation has been amazing!! now LXMinis are capable of playing all music and they have become addictive.
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