I'm fascinated by the Double Horn Single driver speaker box [message #20182] |
Sun, 25 July 2004 22:20 |
lon
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Below is a picture of a double horn single driver project. But it is a trick photo: Look closely and you will see a mirror image of the bottom part of the enclosure reproduced on the top-- upside down.
I still like it.
But there is a lot of questions how to make the compression chamber for a single driver with a top and a bottom horn mouth.
Maybe Sir Fitz will take an interest in this.
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Re: huh.... [message #20190 is a reply to message #20189] |
Mon, 26 July 2004 22:15 |
lon
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Someone like Bill Fitzmaurice could answer on this. His 'snail' series of designs point the driver rearwards and move the sound to right and left through a divided horn. They look like the letter 'M' in McDonalds. There's a fresh snail design in the current audioXpress and on the cover. The snails are mostly designed to be PA speakers for musicians, but the Snail 2 was a regular stand up three-way system. The woofer on that design wasn't exposed at all.
There's lots of horn designs but why I like the double horn is that the lower frequencies get up to listening height... or that's the way I imagine the physics to work. The J-Lo is an over/under design for the Jordan 92s from Nelson Pass and friends. But that design gives no thought to having to move the huge crate that the J-Lo construction is.
I also don't know if sound waves are affected by gravity.
There's been some speculation about that.
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Re: I'm fascinated by the Double Horn Single driver speaker box [message #20191 is a reply to message #20183] |
Mon, 26 July 2004 22:33 |
lon
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http://fullrangedriver.com/tiki-download_forum_attachment.php?attId=27 Try that and pste it into the box. It loads for me from bookmarks. I am frustrated. I just made a long message about backhorns and blew it off, so here goes again.
Bill Fitzmaurice can help on these questions. Over years he has built a series of designs he calls the 'snails'. Snail one though... Snail 8 i think. These are speakers which are designed to be high efficiency PA speaks for musicians.
There is a snail build in the current (August 2004) audioXpress and on the cover as well. The snails have a woofer facing rearwards into a divided horn which comes out the right and left side of the enclosure. Imagine the letter 'M" from McDonalds and you'll get the idea.
Terry Cain also has a concept like this. It looks like a standard BK16 from the Fostex manufacturer's design page _plus_ a mirror image backhorn coming out the top. They no doubt weigh a ton.
Another over/under design is from Nelson Pass called the J-lo (also in audioXpress... I'll find the issue for you if you like) which uses a single Jordan 92s.
I'm sending now so i son't lose this one. :-)
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You are right, the link does not work [message #20192 is a reply to message #20183] |
Tue, 27 July 2004 01:57 |
lon
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Must be a from here to there problem because I have it in bookmarks. However, I copied the link to myself as mail and could not get it either.
This may be because the guy Ron took the bogus *pic* down. Over at www.fullrangedriver.com ron's address is available at the fullrange driver form post called "Does this look familiar?" I was trying to find it and this guy ron responded.
Now, on to things we can actually find pictures of real projects. ;-)
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