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RE: New Outfit for Cogent True-to-life Hornspeakers

Posted by Steve Schell (M) on May 24, 2007 at 17:46:22

In Reply to: New Outfit for Cogent True-to-life Hornspeakers posted by angeloitacare on May 24, 2007 at 15:56:47:

Hi Angelo,

It looks like you have an eye for attractive horn design. The snail bass horn looks like it has possibilities... after all, it was the choice of the Western Electric engineers so many years ago. Bass horn folding is a tricky thing though, so you would have to build and test (and build and test, and...) to determine whether it would meet your goals.

We have been using conical (straight sided) rather than curved midrange horns, as they work best with our drivers. So far we have not used a separate tweeter, as our DS-1428 provides extended high frequency response and the coherence of a single source is hard to beat.

Heat buildup is really not much of an issue with most field coil drivers; ours have about the same dissipation as a small light bulb. We have kept our drivers exposed mostly because many people have commented that they like their looks and want to be able to see them.

Although we appreciate your efforts, we are happy with our horn designs for now. Perhaps you can incorporate some of the features from these sketches into one of your systems. I would recommend trying a version with the horns exposed rather than inside a cabinet; I've always enjoyed ogling those sexy horn curves myself.

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