In Reply to: Making Speakers Efficient/Non Effecient posted by AudioSoul on January 31, 2016 at 16:58:33:
I suppose that "not so efficient" speakers exist for a very good reason: So that the use of horns might be avoided.You'll never read or hear a nursery rhyme that goes, "Little boy blue, come shake your panel; the sheep are in the meadows, the cows are in the canal." And that's partly because horns are the best way to make a speaker that is ultra-efficient, no doubt about it. But at what cost?
It is very hard to design a truly good horn, and it seems that even the best ones color the sound to some degree. Good horns are expensive. Full-range horn systems are relatively huge, often requiring a wide and long room in order to sound their best. Horns can be very ugly, very low "WAF" indeed.
Remove those horns and make gains in many important parameters, while losing electrical efficiency. This is the story of modern loudspeaker design, because there is no perfect way.
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- RE: "Lower efficient speakers, for what reason?" - genungo 00:52:21 02/02/16 (12)
- RE: "Lower efficient speakers, for what reason?" - Kloss 10:11:53 02/02/16 (11)
- You mean hybrid horns? - genungo 11:09:01 02/02/16 (8)
- RE: You mean hybrid horns? - hahax@verizon.net 16:11:27 02/02/16 (7)
- I can think of at least a dozen - Kloss 07:07:29 02/03/16 (3)
- RE: I can think of at least a dozen - hahax@verizon.net 09:59:24 02/03/16 (2)
- RE: I can think of at least a dozen - goldenthal 23:59:31 02/06/16 (0)
- RE: I can think of at least a dozen - Kloss 11:45:03 02/03/16 (0)
- "There are no commercial true bass horns. " - E-Stat 18:25:17 02/02/16 (0)
- RE: "There are no commercial true bass horns." ? - genungo 17:34:30 02/02/16 (1)
- And the World's Biggest (non-commercial) horn subwoofer - genungo 18:32:33 02/02/16 (0)
- RE: "Lower efficient speakers, for what reason?" - A.Wayne 10:24:07 02/02/16 (1)
- Still no fixed definition - Kloss 11:23:15 02/03/16 (0)