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Anyone use horns? (and bad ideas)
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<blockquote data-quote="ciaonzo" data-source="post: 8430175" data-attributes="member: 607015"><p>You want the biggest horn you can fit without hindering the operation of the vehicle. The bigger the horn, the lower it will play. Mount a suitable monster of a compression driver to that horn and you will have a huge portion of the music spectrum coming at you with almost equal pathlengths. With enormous efficiency and headroom, I might add. All that's left is to equalize everything, and that <em>is</em> a lot of work but the payoff is huge.</p><p></p><p>Back in the day I ran the USD Waveguides with a 4" compression driver. The horn body was only good down to around 800Hz but I made up for it with driver diaphragm and excursion. Handed that over to a Vifa 10" in the door. That front stage did not need a subwoofer but of course I had a trio of JL 15W6's. Most powerful system I've ever had but it was all just too much. Eventually I scaled it back to save my ears.</p><p></p><p>I might have a picture of that somewhere.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ciaonzo, post: 8430175, member: 607015"] You want the biggest horn you can fit without hindering the operation of the vehicle. The bigger the horn, the lower it will play. Mount a suitable monster of a compression driver to that horn and you will have a huge portion of the music spectrum coming at you with almost equal pathlengths. With enormous efficiency and headroom, I might add. All that's left is to equalize everything, and that [I]is[/I] a lot of work but the payoff is huge. Back in the day I ran the USD Waveguides with a 4" compression driver. The horn body was only good down to around 800Hz but I made up for it with driver diaphragm and excursion. Handed that over to a Vifa 10" in the door. That front stage did not need a subwoofer but of course I had a trio of JL 15W6's. Most powerful system I've ever had but it was all just too much. Eventually I scaled it back to save my ears. I might have a picture of that somewhere. [/QUOTE]
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