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Cone or compressiondriver for midrange?

Posted by rapid on January 2, 2003 at 17:55:13

Hi!
I'm thinking about building straight edgar midbass horns 80/100Hz (?). The problem is that I don't know if I should go for compressiondrivers or conedrivers in the midrange.

I've read Bruce Edgars article in SB 86 (edgar's midrange horn) and hornloading conespeakers seems to work well (some need to be tweaked a little bit with a gap). Since the midbasshorns will get about 104dB (correct me if I'm wrong) and the hornloaded conespeakers will get approx. the same, the midrange will work pretty well without any attenuation (i guess?). If I get a compressiondriver I'll have to use L-pads or something like that, right?.

Hornloading conedrivers also seems cheaper. Is a bad compressiondriver better than an average midcone? Good compressiondrivers seems expensive, at least JBL is here in Sweden.

This is my first hornproject, if I'll build it. I've got JBL 2405 to handle the high stuff (above 7Khz I guess). Any ideas, comments, suggestions is appreciated!
If anybody has a nice compressiondriver/conespeaker to sell I might be interested =)

/Mattias

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