Agreed. I flipped my T-TQWT 180* for more midbass response.
2012
August 2022 before we moved.
That is too restrictive a definition, Tapped means "part of the way”. A horn with the driver mounted part way along the horn, a swe see in an ML-Voigt or a Frugel-Horn for instance.
dave
Some Frugel Horns are basically a Transmission Line enclosure due to the non continuous positive flare.
Rear Loaded Horns are basically BR's with a positive flare port/vent. See Scoops.
Traditional Horns are FLH (BP4's with a positive flare port/vent), BP6S (TH, Keystone, Paraflex), or BP6P (vented FLH or Compound Horn).
Rear Loaded Horns are basically BR's with a positive flare port/vent. See Scoops.
Traditional Horns are FLH (BP4's with a positive flare port/vent), BP6S (TH, Keystone, Paraflex), or BP6P (vented FLH or Compound Horn).
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All Frugel-Horns are tapped horns with a choke (ala Klipscsh).
All horns are in a sense transmisison lines (in the widest use of the term).
dave
Those are Air Cavity horns. They are not the only horns.
A tapped horn is less of a horn than the Frugel-Horns if you want to be picky. They are double tapped quarter-wave lines with a very limited bandwidth.
dave
At the frequencies involved the angled baffle is only a clever trick to make a more compact horn. And a clever way of creting the Air Cavity.
dave
I already stated multiple type of horns in previous posts.
The driver on a standard BR can be positioned ANYWHERE on the 6 sides of the enclosure, does that make it a "tapped" enclosure?
A transmission line is nothing more than a BR enclosure with a positive OR negative flare port/vent.
With a TRUE tapped horn, the tapped point is critical on getting the front and rear waves of the driver to work together.
That situation is NOT the same with BR and TL enclosures.
As matter of fact there is a TL thread in this subwoofer section where I asked the designer to remove some of the "line" and the enclosure performed better as a standard BR enclosure. Let me find the thread.