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JCD wrote:
 Some general comments/questions from a novice..
1) How high does the full range go? I didn't think most full ranges went as high as most would want. |
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manufactuers specs, it goes up to 20kHz. I'm verifying that right now (I'll report when everything is broken in). This is a 3" "full range" which doesn't make much output under 100Hz. That's why I'm using another driver to reproduce the low octaves.
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JCD wrote:
2) have you looked at Linkwitz's Orions. I think his method of compensating for the bass output is to create an "open box" and to eq the bottom end. Even then, he recommends a subwoofer with his system too. There is something about the open box that boosts the bass output without loosing much (any?) of the benefits of an OB system. |
I'm familiar with the Orion. It is an speaker with an excellent reputation. However, open baffle speakers are not known for having lots of bass - quite the contrary, they tend to be bass lean. The Orion has some fancy active equalization built in that compensates for this fact. Although I hear it works well, this is a bit beyond my skill and price range. Instead, I'm attempting to use the 3" driver in an open baffle but crossing over to a sealed enclosure just above the point where the OB bass rolloff begins. In my past OB experiments I used an additional speaker to act as bass augmentation - here I'm trying to make it all built in.