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JBL L5 mid-horn [message #44751]

Wed, 16 June 2004 16:50

Manualblock
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Glancing through an old Speaker Builder from '87 I read a pretty thorough article by Bruce Edgar on building a mid-horn with the JBL L5 driver. Well researched.

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Re: JBL L5 mid-horn [message #44752 is a reply to message #44751]

Wed, 16 June 2004 17:49

Adrian Mack
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Was it the Edgar Midrange Horn article Issue 1, 1986, p.p. 7�17 SB? Available online at http://www.volvotreter.de/dl-section.htm

What I dont agree on in the article is the spacers between driver and mounting plate - seems like a way to increase bandwidth of the horn and perhaps reduce resonances under the cone up high, but at the expense of a fair bit of efficiency. Not 100% sure, but thats what I think.

Other than that I have always liked his article and he has done a good job.

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Re: JBL L5 mid-horn [message #44755 is a reply to message #44752]

Wed, 16 June 2004 19:23

Manualblock
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Yep; thats it; seems at that time he was doing a little fishing still. How much of a sacrifice in efficiency are we talking here? Isn't that what Wayne is doing with the 8's?

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Re: JBL L5 mid-horn [message #44760 is a reply to message #44755]

Thu, 17 June 2004 05:00

Wayne Parham
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The gaskets on my midhorns are there to keep the cone from striking the front plate at high excursion. I cannot detect or measure any difference in response when using it. The volume difference is so small that modeled response doesn't show it either.

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Re: JBL L5 mid-horn [message #44762 is a reply to message #44760]

Thu, 17 June 2004 07:53

Adrian Mack
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The gaskets you're talking about are different to what Mr Edgar used though. Edgar's ones are just spacers, not full gaskets. I believe it just uses 4 spaces on the driver to make a physical gap between driver and mounting plate, and you can see the gap through the side (unlike a gasket where its all covered).

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Re: JBL L5 mid-horn [message #44764 is a reply to message #44762]

Thu, 17 June 2004 08:35

Wayne Parham
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Thanks for that clarification, Adrian. I remember seeing that he had done that now, and it's completely different than using a gasket. As I recall, Edgar said the horn was peaky but he found the gap would help or some such thing.

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Re: JBL L5 mid-horn [message #44787 is a reply to message #44764]

Fri, 18 June 2004 17:47

Adrian Mack
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I think the gap tamed down some peakiness around the lower cutoff but the big thing was the gaps made frequency response flat to a good octave or so higher.

I tried a variety of spacers on my midrange horn once, never bothered to measure the response curve though, but just 'by ear' I could tell that efficiency definitly decreased audibly.

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Re: JBL L5 mid-horn [message #44788 is a reply to message #44787]

Sat, 19 June 2004 05:29

Wayne Parham
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I've noticed the same thing you have, but I've noticed it just when bolting drivers to horns while playing. You can hear the output increase as the driver nears the horn, but it really jumps when you snug it up for an airtight fit.

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