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In Reply to: RE: Have you heard the Sweet Sixteen speakers? link posted by Bill the K on August 08, 2020 at 23:44:15
It sounded like a table radio - no bass, crappy/weak treble, ragged midrange - except it could play louder before distortion became prominent, and it was very efficient.
Nevertheless, it always fascinated me too.
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What about building as a vertical line source?
Too much is never enough
Vertical line sources aren't exactly new or unknown. Harry Olson was describing their benefits in the 1940s.
Hey Bill, Just read your horn building article in
the Jan. 01 Audio Express. Laughed at the "Red Green"
horn with duct tape, lol.
Not familiar with the mag., but was given huge stacks of
those as well as Speaker Builder, Voice Coil, and Audio Amateur.
Looks like 300+ mags. total!.
Did you write alot for A.X.?. Wonder if Mr. Edgar did also.
I wrote for Speaker Builder and Audio xPress. I've lost track of how many articles I had published but I'm sure it was over thirty.
If you start taking a bunch of similar drivers and place them vertically, you'll be entering the territory of my well-known friend, Roger Russell, of McIntosh fame, and his amazing sounding IDS-25 speakers! I can tell everyone here that after listening to these IDS-25 speakers in Roger's home, I was gobsmacked and immediately wanted a pair...
Thetubeguy1954 (Tom)
Central Florida Audio Society -- SETriodes Group -- Space Coast Audio Society
Full-range/Wide-range Drivers --- Front & Back-Loaded Horns --- High Sensitivity Speakers
You HAD me right up to the mention of Floirida, a place I will not venture again. And I lived there for several years in the 70s. Both Tampa /St. Pete and down in the Miami area. I was in Ft. Lauderdale several years ago at the END of a cruise. (panama canal) and maybe a week or so later, the airport was shook by some kind of terror attack. No Mas.
But an equalized linesource DOES sound like it could be wonderful. Maybe add a super tweeter? With a simple capacitor cross, it could work?
Here in SoCal we have Audience. They MADE (past tense) a tower using either 8 or maybe a dozen of their proprietary driver. Now? Just a single and a double. But still VERY nice. I saw the towers at a show but I guess the response was UnderWhelming.
Too much is never enough
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