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Re: Karlson cabinet for bass guitar?

Hi Marko

dunno - might be matter of taste, genre, etc. I got compliments on K15 & D140 with Traynor tube tops - one guy I talked with in NYC used 2-K15 with SVT - he may have been doing jazz.

K15 outdoors in a middle of a yard is about 8-10dB down at 50, K12, X15 and Acoustic Control are about 1/2 octave worse so light on bottom. 115 BK (which assume was modeled after Walter Zintz's Transylvania's KHYBOE) had a wide aperture and only 20 degrees baffle tilt from vertical so was subjectively brighter than K15 when using driver like EV15L.

Karlson have no midrange gain so a loud 12" rated 5% efficiency will have about as much mids as a loud 15 or 18 and no more steady-state than direct radiator. They have prety good loading and have some percussive hit.

you could build a new coupler to reasonable dimensions with radial wings and probably have it work well enough for bass guitar

I was happy on bass with things like w-bin horn having no bottom but plenty of punch - a good drummer is worth more than any cabinet approach.

Bill Fitzmaurice has lots of horn and combo plans

post with with Fred Walecki Westwood cabinet - not sure why the extra panels from front view

KHYBOE1

post with Acoustic control's 115Bk - note it had 1.5" inset from front - and depth barely enough for EV15L without the stupid "heatsink" - the innards are simple with one diagonal baffle board and one flat reflector board - if scaled it would probably be an ok K18

KHYBOE2


Stanley Clark's k-rig. ER whos posts here has played at least the K part so can give opinions



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