what's a good little rectangular horn to use with 1" driver for a tweeter ?

RE: what's a good little rectangular horn to use with 1" driver for a tweeter ?, posted on January 12, 2017 at 05:22:52
D Mike Audiophile Posts: 128 Location: Michigan Joined: October 24, 2005	From an aesthetic standpoint to match those horns, I would be thinking about JBL or Beyma baby butt cheek style. What mid horns are those? They look pretty heavy duty cast construction.

I'm with him (FWIW) -- nt, posted on January 12, 2017 at 05:41:56
mhardy6647 Audiophile Posts: 16010 Location: New England Joined: October 12, 1999 Contributor Since: October 23, 2016	what else is there to say? ;-) all the best, mrh

RE: what's a good little rectangular horn to use with 1" driver for a tweeter ?, posted on January 12, 2017 at 06:29:58
freddyi Audiophile Posts: 3852 Joined: December 6, 2001	those midhorns are quite light - "structural foam" and made by Gollehon. -- got some Emilar bowties somewhere in my mess, then small Gollehon radial horns the same gray color which are pretty deep for a tweeter which have thick "lips" - something like Westlake. K700 would make some sort of pea shooter. . . . Karlson Evangelist

RE: what's a good little rectangular horn to use with 1" driver for a tweeter ?, posted on January 12, 2017 at 08:55:11

b.l.zeebub
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May be the Beyma CP-21/F slot loaded tweeter or the FaitalPro FD371
http://www.faitalpro.com/en/products/HF_Drivers/product_details/index.php?id=502010090
Looks better in real life but dispersion might be a bit narrow.

On the whole though I gree with D Mike.

https://www.beyma.com/products/compressiontweeters/1CP21F8

RE: what's a good little rectangular horn to use with 1" driver for a tweeter ?, posted on January 12, 2017 at 09:18:41

freddyi
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thanks for the links - if i can get a little tweeter to go down low enough without strain - I'm broke so have to go real cheap - got some Audax bullets and Selenium ST324 somewhere in my mess.

I was thinking of using Peavey RX14 on a little rectangular horn

eventually I'll have another midbass but don't expect it to be quite as good as the one above

my builder doesn't have much spare time for speakers so this baby University Classic for a 10" may take a number of months to finish

6 cubic foot folded midbass - got wasted space in its back chamber and around the throat section - might make it to 100 - more worried about
it reaching a midhorn

my real fun is with Karlson - I'll take a K12 over my Klipschorn

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RE: what's a good little rectangular horn to use with 1" driver for a tweeter ?, posted on January 12, 2017 at 20:23:41

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Fredyi -

If you haven't already got a few, go to the Parts Express website and search under "PRV Audio WG35-25-B". It might be the best $10 you'll spend this year.

(It's not an exponential horn, BTW, the copyrwriter at PE evidently doesn't know a lot about horns)
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RE: what's a good little rectangular horn to use with 1" driver for a tweeter ? hows this combo look ?, posted on January 13, 2017 at 14:16:14

freddyi
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cool - will that waveguide work in the 3K and up area without EQ? - I've got an unused QSC version of the Econowave favorite.

For screw on 1" drivers, I have a little Gollehon horn - about 10" deep IIRC - I'm sure it has some beaming on top and will "self-eq"

don't know how to stack these effectively - maybe just a small base with a vertical piece with cutouts at the midhorn and tweeter horns' throats as "yokes" ??? - I'm horrible at woodwork.

I think the midhorn's sidewalls are 90 degrees and the smaller horn's sidewalls 120 degrees - don't know what effects that may have

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RE: what's a good little rectangular horn to use with 1" driver for a tweeter ? hows this combo look ?, posted on January 13, 2017 at 14:45:10

bwaslo
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That horn is basically a (actually better made) copy of the QSC. It's constant directivity, though, so needs CD compensation starting at around 3kHz. A series resistor of about 10 ohms with about 1uF shunted across it (R and C in parallel, then that in series with the tweeter) should get close. That horn works pretty well as low as 900Hz, maybe bigger than what you want though. Very smooth sounding, though.
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RE: what's a good little rectangular horn to use with 1" driver for a tweeter ? hows this combo look ?, posted on January 13, 2017 at 15:06:38
freddyi Audiophile Posts: 3852 Joined: December 6, 2001	thanks for the CD compensation values - I think my midhorn will make it to 3KHz - maybe 4 (?) so the tweeter waveguide/horn doesn't need to be very large - its nice to know that PRV is such a well made WG at a near give-away price. Karlson Evangelist

RE: what's a good little rectangular horn to use with 1" driver for a tweeter ?, posted on January 15, 2017 at 10:07:55

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I assumed you were doing a 3way with that bass bin and that mid horn looking for a tweeter above.

Now it seems I may have got that wrong and you're looking for a compression driver to go with the bass. I'm slightly confused... ;-)

If the latter is the case the only small

http://www.bluearan.co.uk/index.php?id=FANFH450#

RE: what's a good little rectangular horn to use with 1" driver for a tweeter ? hows this combo look ?, posted on January 16, 2017 at 06:43:51
KanedaK Audiophile Posts: 2518 Location: Brussels Joined: April 27, 2010	Give BEYMA CP25 a try. They will work wonders with the dispersion of your mid horns as they share the same geometry. They are great tweeters for the price.

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