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In Reply to: RE: Custom full-range folded horn cabinets posted by bleack1 on January 11, 2017 at 15:12:21
I, for one, don't see the advantages of matching (TRYING to match) a horn-loaded bass to a direct radiator midrange (or full-range).
1)Horn laded bass needs a sheer size to go low enough; otherwise you might be forced to complete it with a subwoofer, wich will be direct radiator again
2)If you like how horns sound, by all means make it all horn-loaded
...now if you'd be using a single driver with a back hornloading that would be a different story, but what you want to do here doesn't really make sense to me (even tho i'm sure there might be some other designs using that formula, but to me they don't make sense either)
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I strongly agree that horns work best in all horn systems. The sound from horns has an agility and dynamic immediacy that other speakers don't have. A seamless blend of horns with direct radiators is very difficult to achieve.
I agree of course, but I've also found that if you're going to have a mix of horns and direct radiators that you get the best result with the horns handling the low end. I've got horn loaded subs with TL mains in my HT, horn loaded subs with MTM mains in my studio, and both work very well. Commercial products do it the other way around, IMO not because it works better that way, but purely to keep the size of the LF cab smaller. I've never heard anyone describe the sound of a high frequency horn as 'effortless', but it's nearly always applied to a horn loaded sub or woofer.
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