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Posted by weltersys (P) on January 15, 2017 at 07:28:24

In Reply to: RE: By way of explaination.... posted by Tre' on December 22, 2016 at 19:27:09:

In Reply to: RE: By way of explaination.... posted by Uncle Mike on December 22, 2016 at 14:01:50

I use the JBL woofers in the 4331a enclosures with a SS amp crossed at 200Hz.

"The mids are JBL 2118 passively crossed at 2500Hz into a Heil AMT and driven by my DIY 300b SET amps.

I don't want to play the JBL 15's all the way up to 800Hz and I know the horns won't play down to 200Hz.

I was thinking of trying the 2420/2312 crossed at 2500Hz in place of my Heil AMT tweeters.

What do you think?

Tre'"

Tre,

I think the 2420 on the exponential horns you have, without the lens, is perhaps the most musical sounding HF driver I have ever listened to, on axis. They have only a 10 degree (or so) pattern at 16 kHz, but the narrowing pattern flattens the falling HF response of the 2420.
I used them in my 1979 sound system stage monitors.
For around 8 months while building that system, I used a clock radio to drive one of the active two-way monitors, which had an EV-15L (I preferred the EV woofers over the JBLs of that era) and the 2420/horn had a protection capacitor (18 MFD, IIRC) which passively put it in around 800 Hz or so, the 6 dB per octave transition worked well with the EV-15L raw response.
With less than a watt, the speaker was loud enough to "get over" the noise of saws and belt sanders, yet was very "high fi" on axis. Since most of my work was done at a bench, the narrow HF dispersion was fine, and also made life more livable for my friend who worked at a desk 30 feet away in the same basement.

Art "Memory Lane" Welter

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Topic - Look what I found in my woofer boxes. - Tre' 16:13:12 12/20/16 (15)

RE: Look what I found in my woofer boxes. - DominicPorter 21:00:44 01/11/17 (0)

RE: Look what I found in my woofer boxes. - DominicPorter 20:40:25 01/11/17 (0)

By way of explaination.... - Tre' 16:36:01 12/21/16 (9)

RE: if you have the room - bean 14:26:34 12/27/16 (0)

RE: By way of explaination.... - Uncle Mike 14:01:50 12/22/16 (7)

RE: By way of explaination.... - Tre' 19:27:09 12/22/16 (6)

RE: By way of explaination.... - weltersys 07:28:24 01/15/17 (1)

RE: By way of explaination.... - DominicPorter 10:35:32 01/17/17 (0)

RE: By way of explaination.... - Uncle Mike 00:58:33 12/23/16 (3)

RE: By way of explaination.... - Tre' 08:06:10 12/23/16 (2)

try the 2480 - merdy 15:35:55 12/23/16 (1)

RE: try the 2480 - Tre' 19:32:31 12/23/16 (0)

RE: Look what I found in my woofer boxes. - Inmate51 09:23:45 12/21/16 (0)

RE: Look what I found in my woofer boxes. - moray james 08:53:11 12/21/16 (0)

RE: Look what I found in my woofer boxes. - amandarae 22:22:46 12/20/16 (0)

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