Follow what others have done. Read the Unity horn patent. Do lots of experiments changing one variable at a time, port lenght/shape/location, volume under cone, distance from hf source, etc. You will quickly learn how these things work. Learn VituixCad and ath4.
This is what I did. It's not hard, you just need to go through all the steps and realise you will be making a lot of prototypes.
Thank you for the advice, truly appreciate it.
I am very new to horns and as for now it seems like a mountain (a scary one) of knowledge I'll have to tackle...
What brought me actually to horns were the last Western Electric presentation of piano play I heard in this year munich... a 97 year old loudspeakers play faster then any modern speaker I heard at the show. Maybe the Silbatone equipment helped a bit as well
But since then I'm hooked!
By the way, are you familiar with this type of bass horn loaded construction?
Would be interesting getting the benefits of closed sub- two woofers opposing each other and well load them with a horn to raise Efficiency and sense of speed?
Hi,
I like the approach of targeting a €140K speaker as your first one to make.
have a read of this thread loosely based around Tune Audio Anima
Tune Anima
What crossover point are you targeting for your 4590 + horn?
Rgds
Barry
I like the approach of targeting a €140K speaker as your first one to make.
have a read of this thread loosely based around Tune Audio Anima
Tune Anima
What crossover point are you targeting for your 4590 + horn?
Rgds
Barry
All hypothetical, I am aware that something of this magnitude may take a life time.
That being said, I have a bit of experience on building speakers, but not on developing them, I know that's a big difference 😉
please do not mount drivers horizontally ... gravity will ruin the suspension over time
keep acoustic centers close together
account for minimum delay between drivers to get good summation at maximum bandwidth
SPL MAX at distance X should meet your requirements depending on input power , lower cut-of frequency vs driver area/Xmax ...
keep acoustic centers close together
account for minimum delay between drivers to get good summation at maximum bandwidth
SPL MAX at distance X should meet your requirements depending on input power , lower cut-of frequency vs driver area/Xmax ...
Maybe into the midrange you can consider what you drew as horn loading or a waveguide.
Size required for a classic horn design that goes into the low bass region:
https://www.passdiy.com/gallery/speakers/the-kleinhorn-part-1
Also consider things like the Klipschorn that used the room walls to extend the bass horn to reasonable frequencies. Bass horns get big fast.
There are more modern ways to shrink them some with limited degradation, but even those are much larger than what you were thinking.
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a friend of mine ruined expensive dynaudio woofers in his sports car!
after a few years laying horizontally most drivers are getting sagged ... no matter what suspension you are using ....
after a few years laying horizontally most drivers are getting sagged ... no matter what suspension you are using ....
Focal Utopia, sonus Faber are using this method... never thought about it as a problem
money is their only friend you as a customer being only a victim of their policy of getting more money more money more money ..... the whole audio biz is a bunch of well organized gangsters to keep the wheel going ...
Hi Marveloudio,
thank you for the reply.
So, as I understand it, your assertion is really a claim supported by an anecdotal evidence.
Kindest regards,
M
thank you for the reply.
So, as I understand it, your assertion is really a claim supported by an anecdotal evidence.
Kindest regards,
M