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In Reply to: RE: You are preaching to the choir.... posted by tubesforever on July 02, 2009 at 00:27:00
B&C 8PE21 8" Midrange sourced from parts express. The reason many people like horn drivers is there is NOT a lot of cone movement in proportion to other drivers hence LOW distortion {almost like we are shooting for a speaker with no moving parts..............ala electrostatics which is why they have to be so big to play loud and or deep} The less a driver moves................the less distortion can occur ........contrary to what car speaker manufacturers would have us believe. 20 HZ is 20 cycles per second ............... I am not sure my eyes can witness a diaphragm moving back and forth 20 times in one second...........and that is for the deepest bass most guys strive to achieve for complete bandwidth. Here is where I make my compromises........{even Paul Klipsch did} as my Khorns only go down to 35 hertz. For efficient bass to 20 HZ the cabinet would border on encompassing half the room. Someday I will install Altec 511's for the all important midrange in the Khorns. My idea was to hand off the driver I mentioned above to an Aurum Cantus G3Si Ribbon. I lose the ambience from a dipole design but all in all gain the SPL's and dynamic range of Horns.............everything is a compromise.
"The Sound of One Hand Clapping is Crashing by Design" HKM
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