But you can still drop by next time you're in Toronto. Any chance you'll be crossing the lake in your new toy?

Gar.

Yes, I'll be taking the boat across the lake next summer for sure.

Bill

1. Small basshorns aren't horns. They are too small to be effective at low frequencies.
2. The complexity of a folded horn adds to its cost. The cabinet becomes a significant cost factor.
3. Gar's golf savings, "twisted economics" and his justification to his wife are all damn funny.

On point number one, I don't think it was ever Fitz's intention to use the T18 in freespace. In his posts, he always directs users to face the unit into a corner to take advantage of room boundaries. Is there any difference between this approach and your corner horns?

gar

Beyond that, corner loading of a truncated horn is something I would consider a requirement. But putting a horn in a corner doesn't lower the flare frequency very much, the real benefit to undersized horns is that it smooths response ripples. At very low frequency, the system is pretty much just a direct radiator and in this mode, the driver's excursion and other specs are more important than the horn part of the cabinet. The passages that make up the horn become useless under the flare frequency.