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In Reply to: RE: Or, to paraphrase: " The Best speaker I've even heard is the one I just built" posted by eso on August 06, 2010 at 19:18:19
Bass horn do have there place. And its in my listening rooms. They sure are hard to design proper. I feel this is why some give up. Very easy to get them wrong. But when done right near the best in bass. I know large costly much easier to knock out designs like above. I see to many overly small bass horn attempts no wonder they where not enjoyable.
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Basshorns have a their compromises starting with the fact that the long path from the driver to the mouth means that the bass signal is usually delayed relative to the midbass in most systems. Unless if you are willing to live with the compromise, then this usually rules out bass horns. I cannot live with this compromise as the bass sounds confused.
The second drawback of basshorns is that, unless if the basshorns is VERY large/long, then they cannot be subwoofers because the frequency response drops off a cliff at a fairly high frequency (too high for many audiophiles) - they are just woofers.
The third drawback of basshorns is that while they are better than sealed subs and many ported subs, because they are simply high quality sealed subs with a megaphone in front of them, they suffer from some of the same drawbacks as sealed subs (compression and distortion caused by the "box" or compression chamber), although they do so at much higher levels than sealed subs.
Basshorns have a very important place and that is for very large venues where you need big and efficient output. But in audiophile listening rooms, there are better options which don't force you to live with these compromises.
If you have a basshorn and like it good for you. But others have found better options.
Retsel
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"Basshorns have a very important place and that is for very large venues where you need big and efficient output. But in audiophile listening rooms, there are better options which don't force you to live with these compromises."
For an alternate point of view have a look about here:
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/forumdisplay.php?f=155
Both my THT and Tom's DTS-10 have garnered a very loyal following amongst users who are not the least bit undemanding; some might even call them fanatical.
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