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From: levy@ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy)
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: Re: RAW SPEAKERS
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Date: Thu, 1-Aug-85 18:48:07 EDT
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eric@rtech.UUCP (Eric Lundblad) <579@rtech.UUCP>:
>
>> I agree with the previous article that the horns give a superb bass
>> response but I'm not too sure I would want a straight horn in the bass.
>> The problem is that it gets kind of long and you start getting a time
>> delay between the bass and midrange.  The folded horn is shorter and (to
>> me) the time skew is not noticeable.
>
>	All other things being equal, the time delay a horn introduces 
>is the same whether the horn is straight or folded. Sound will take just
>as long to exit a horn when it twists and turns as it does when it heads
>straight out.
>
>-- 
>
>			Eric Lundblad
>		   ucbvax!mtxinu!rtech!eric

Been thinking about this (the horn delay problem) for a while, and I wonder--
suppose if the non-horn speaker were set back far enough in the cabinet that
the delays were equalized?  (I guess this would call for a pretty deep cab-
inet in the case of a folded horn, but for a straight one why would it need
to be much deeper than for the horn alone?  Just build a "wall" surrounding
the passage from the non-horn to the front of the cabinet (actually you have
just created another "horn" this way); vent the rear to the inside of the rest
of the cabinet.)
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