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Help with tweeter to woofer distance please [message #65596] Thu, 06 January 2011 15:33 Go to next message
Bill Epstein is currently offline  Bill Epstein
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I just through the drivers into the Utah cabinets but now I want to build new boxes and do it right. I'm seeeing info about 1/2 wavelength between but not sure how the crossover affects.

The baffle is 15" wide. Crossover First Order at 2000Hz. 12" woofer, 4" tweeter.

Just jam'm together or go for a mathematical spacing?
Re: Help with tweeter to woofer distance please [message #65597 is a reply to message #65596] Thu, 06 January 2011 16:37 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Wayne Parham is currently offline  Wayne Parham
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With direct radiators, closer is better in almost all cases. The thing you have to juggle is the fore/aft spacing and crossover phase. With first-order, it's a pretty good rule of thumb to align the voice coils on direct radiators but that only really works at resonance. At all other frequencies, the acoustic center is either a little forward or a little ahead.

Horns are a little different, certainly those designed for constant directivity like I favor. When designing a loudspeaker for uniform directivity, the mid and tweeter should match directivity in the horizontal plane, something that is largely set by the horn flare and crossover point.

A 90°x40° radial horn or waveguide is large enough to control the pattern at the crossover in the horizontal, but not usually in the vertical. The mouth isn't tall enough, so the pattern begins to open up down low. But you can put the nulls just outside the flare angle to augment pattern control in the crossover region. Above that, the flare gains pattern control.

Re: Help with tweeter to woofer distance please [message #65605 is a reply to message #65597] Thu, 06 January 2011 20:44 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Bill Epstein is currently offline  Bill Epstein
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Thanks, Wayne. I think I'll build them like I did my very first Delta 4Pis. You remember, with the double baffle for the woofer painted black? I'll have to go a lot more than 3/4", tho'.

Wow! That's 10 years ago!

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Re: Help with tweeter to woofer distance please [message #65610 is a reply to message #65605] Thu, 06 January 2011 23:08 Go to previous message
Wayne Parham is currently offline  Wayne Parham
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Those were some of the best looking speakers, I loved them! And I always liked those Peavey horns too. They were my favorites in the 1990s.

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