bigshot
Headphoneus Supremus
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I'm afraid I read your post a few times, but I couldn't make hide nor hair out of it. But one thing I did understand enough to comment on...
The horns my friend has designed for his system don't corrupt the sound, they improve it. He's using exponential horn technology based on the studies done at Bell Laboratories in the 20s and 30s to create bass speakers with a perfectly flat response all the way up the frequency range.
He's come up with a design that is highly directional... so if you sat in the back row of the Hollywood Bowl you would hear the exact same sound as from the front row... using the exact same speakers. Normally, bass disperses over distance, and to reach the back, they have to either install speakers further back in the audience, or power the front speakers to higher volume levels to carry. But my friend's horn design makes the sound highly directional, so it carries all the way to the back with no loss in frequency response. In his home system, only the bass speakers are horn loaded, but in the full arena sized system, his other drivers are horn loaded too. This can allow him to set up in a field in the middle of a residential area and pump sound to an audience without any significant spill to the surrounding neighborhood.
The way his listening room is set up, the sound is right there in front of you. It's a well laid out listening room. I was hearing exactly what he intended me to hear... the room wasn't coloring the presentation.
See ya
Steve
Originally Posted by JaZZ Well, the last sentence is a bit of wishful thinking. But let me elaborate why. |
I'm afraid I read your post a few times, but I couldn't make hide nor hair out of it. But one thing I did understand enough to comment on...
The horns my friend has designed for his system don't corrupt the sound, they improve it. He's using exponential horn technology based on the studies done at Bell Laboratories in the 20s and 30s to create bass speakers with a perfectly flat response all the way up the frequency range.
He's come up with a design that is highly directional... so if you sat in the back row of the Hollywood Bowl you would hear the exact same sound as from the front row... using the exact same speakers. Normally, bass disperses over distance, and to reach the back, they have to either install speakers further back in the audience, or power the front speakers to higher volume levels to carry. But my friend's horn design makes the sound highly directional, so it carries all the way to the back with no loss in frequency response. In his home system, only the bass speakers are horn loaded, but in the full arena sized system, his other drivers are horn loaded too. This can allow him to set up in a field in the middle of a residential area and pump sound to an audience without any significant spill to the surrounding neighborhood.
The way his listening room is set up, the sound is right there in front of you. It's a well laid out listening room. I was hearing exactly what he intended me to hear... the room wasn't coloring the presentation.
See ya
Steve