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While I am waiting for my friend to return this fall to help me make some DIY Klipsch/Synergy horns for the theater... I decided to get to work on a pair of speakers for our living room which right now is using my JBL surrounds as main channels. The new speakers will be the Inlow horns. Here is a review on them...http://www.tnt-audio.com/casse/paper_mache_horns_e.html
Over the next few weeks I will be gathering the materials to build the turntable assembly for the horn mold. Hopefully I can source most of it close to where we live. I am currently looking at bass bin design for the horns too. I have a few simple designs I am thinking of...
1: 2 15" woofers in a sealed rectangular box which will also hold the horn
2: 1 15" woofer in a sealed square box which will hold the horn.
3: 2 15" woofers in an open baffle array with the horn supported on top of the array
I really like the 2 woofer setup, but I would ideally like to have the center of the horn at ear level, and 2 15" woofers will def put it about 10" too high from a typical seat. Would it work to just aim the center of the horn to ear level at the mlp?
The alternative is to use a singe woofer box, but then I am worried about our cat as the horns are made of paper mache.
I am really looking forward to making these as they will not be expensive, and from. What I have heard they sound awesome. I will use my woofers if they are up to the part.. The woofers I have are the Eminence Kappa-15C 15" Driver 4 Ohm. I know the 4ohm version would work better with 2 than with 1, but they were purchased with the plan to use a pair in each synergy horn.I have 100w B&O amp modules for the woofers.
Suggestions...Will the woofers work well in a box or open baffle?
Over the next few weeks I will be gathering the materials to build the turntable assembly for the horn mold. Hopefully I can source most of it close to where we live. I am currently looking at bass bin design for the horns too. I have a few simple designs I am thinking of...
1: 2 15" woofers in a sealed rectangular box which will also hold the horn
2: 1 15" woofer in a sealed square box which will hold the horn.
3: 2 15" woofers in an open baffle array with the horn supported on top of the array
I really like the 2 woofer setup, but I would ideally like to have the center of the horn at ear level, and 2 15" woofers will def put it about 10" too high from a typical seat. Would it work to just aim the center of the horn to ear level at the mlp?
The alternative is to use a singe woofer box, but then I am worried about our cat as the horns are made of paper mache.
I am really looking forward to making these as they will not be expensive, and from. What I have heard they sound awesome. I will use my woofers if they are up to the part.. The woofers I have are the Eminence Kappa-15C 15" Driver 4 Ohm. I know the 4ohm version would work better with 2 than with 1, but they were purchased with the plan to use a pair in each synergy horn.I have 100w B&O amp modules for the woofers.
Suggestions...Will the woofers work well in a box or open baffle?