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OK:LETS WORK THIS THE OTHER WAY AROUND-
LETS SAY YOU HAVE APPROX 10-15,000 FOR A COMPRESSION DRIVER SPEAKER SYSTEM.
THIS IS THE RANGE WHERE MANY MORE OF US CAN JUMP ON.LETS SAY THE NEW DRIVERS COMING OUT ARE HALF THIS AMOUNT
(5-7,000) WHAT CAN BE MADE WITH THIS KIND MONEY?
BOTTOM LINE IS I AM TRYING TO FIGURE IF THIS IS SOMETHING THAT
I WILL HAVE SOME DAY OR -AM I BLOWING SMOKE UP MY BUM?
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For your buget, you can actually do a pretty good system.I see you have some good suggestions, but here is another.
For the bass horn, you will start with a pair of Cogent bass drivers. You will have to BUILD YOUR OWN horn. It will be a minimum of 12sq ft mouth and 12 ft long. Probably a J or radial sweep [15A] shape. If you can afford [space for] a larger horn, build it.
You will then have quite a few choices for mid-high drivers, from current mfg to vintage.
You could use a Sierra Brooks 300hz horn with a widerange driver, or something like the JBL 2440 and a tweeter on top.
Another option for mid+ horn is Azura with an extention piece for a compression driver.
You can always upgrade everything else, once you have the [most essential IMO] bass horn set up.
Later
D
It would seem to me that when Cogent comes out with their bass compression driver rig then you might be able to step up and get something for around $10K or so, and run it from 70hz to 800hz or so.Then I'd take a stock 1.4" or 2" driver like Altec 288B and put it on one of Bill Woods' cast aluminum horns. Maybe $1000 for everything.
Perhaps Tom Danley's Tower of Power would be the thing to bring up the bottom end: $3000 for speaks, amp and crossover, or just get a sealed sub ($650 or so) and be happy with it.
Actually, I do think you are blowing smoke up your bum. At least about putting together a full compression driver horn system for that kind of money. But.....For the 15K though, you could get a pair of the original RCA field coil compression drivers that inspired Cogent's design, figure about 3k for a perfect pair. Steve has intimated that he may provide his new carbon fibre cone and a new phasing plug for RCA FC driver owners, but I may be speaking out of line on that. In any event, the original drivers are great in their passband. You could get Bill Woods cast conical horn for them. And you could build a pair of very long straight horns for 15"woofers which would have alot of the slam of bass compression drivers. The only thing you would need to build yourself are the bass horns. You'd have some money left over, too.
Just a suggestion.
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Product pricing leaves a lot of room for pondering alternatives. One thing for sure is that the audio range starting at 300hz to 20K has been covered with compression drivers in great lengths since the 1920s. If a person where truly serious about a full horn system and had the space and money to realize such a system then why not start with an Edgar straight horn and then get the 300-20K ranged nailed all the while researching compression midbass. This in it self could take a year or more. By then something else maybe available or Steve might be market ready.
when you say "what can be made with this kind of money" are you referring to the kind of thing the drivers would be mounted to?sure an all Sierra Brooks would be out of the question, but a lot can be done for that money, all the horns would have to be plywood probably, no solid birch and concrete i would guess, but i'd think it wold be doable, at least if you DIY, the amount of time that has to go in to a full horn array is significant enough that you may be paying that 6k in labour.
"... all the horns would have to be plywood probably, no solid birch and concrete i would guess..."Actually, I have about $400.00 in materials for my 2 30Hz basshorns. Cement materials are incredibly cheap.
The variable is whether one is doing the work themself of paying ofr someone else's time.
eso
Can you please not type in all caps?
are you the TEXT police?
I do engineering for a living.
the drawings we make must be very clear
we use only CAPITAL letters
why?take a guess
Sure, I do all caps on hand lettered stuff too, but it is very hard to read in the forum.If you have low vision then click on 'view' in the tool bar and change the text size, but give the rest of us a break!
Are you telling me that lower-case text is illegible here?
454casull?i could have used one of those last year in alaska when a kodiak got real close,
as it was i just did alot of praying and made it out ok.
(never will forget the size of the foot prints he left in the mud!)
If you needed a handgun, the S&W .500 Magnum would have been nice. :)
;0)
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