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Re: Back loaded horns can make excellent bass horns

Posted by Retsel (A) on May 15, 2007 at 14:23:15

In Reply to: Back loaded horns can make excellent bass horns posted by Kloss on May 15, 2007 at 05:26:51:

If you try to exend the bass of a backhorn, you will probably want to use it, but to the detriment of the midrange. Wide range drivers cannot reproduce the bass and clean midrange at the same time - you have to choose. Dave Slagle used two sets of Big Fun Horns to reproduce his music - one for the midrange and treble, and one for the bass.

Since you don't want bass from a backhorn/widerange driver, the unfolded backhorn of the Hedlund makes it perhaps the best backhorn enclosure for widerange drivers.

Like anything I guess, I have heard bass from horns which is very good in some cases and just average in other cases. My experience is that the stiffness of the horn is critical for excellent bass in horn speakers.

Because horns don't do deep bass, and the midrange would have to be delayed to match the long path of horn subwoofers, I don't like horn subwoofers. I also think that infinite and open baffle bass and servoed subwoofers, if implemented well, have less distortion than horn subwoofers implemented to the same level.

Retsel

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