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Re: end correction [message #19543 is a reply to message #19542] Tue, 08 July 2008 18:25 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
Wayne Parham is currently offline  Wayne Parham
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End correction is a phrase that describes the virtual path length of a horn in excess of its physical length. It is similar to the corrected length of a port in a Helmholtz resonator. Depending on mouth area, the added virtual length can be fairly substantial.

I suggest using Hornresp to model a basshorn. It will take this into account, and it will also allow you to enter the space the horn is operating in, i.e. freespace or more likely halfspace (on the ground), quarter space (on the ground, back against a wall) or eighth space (in a corner). The more constrained the radiating angle, the less impedance macthing is required. So a smaller horn works better when radiating into a smaller angle.

That said, truncated horns always produce more response ripple than properly sized horns. They also tend to be less efficient. You can minimize ripple with various techniques, but none of them improve efficiency.

The usual method is to cancel standing wave nodes from the mouth reflection using some form of self-cancellation notch, usually from driver or fold position. This is not unlike the techniques described by Martin King to reduce the harmonic ripple in a quarter-wave pipe. In fact, the more truncated a horn is, the more it acts like a quarter-wave pipe, so they share some features. It's like a continuum of alignments from straight pipe to tapered pipe to horn.

 
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