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RE: with your room?... is a lock for Khorns, sub not needed... Horn bass will smoke a sub-nt

Mr. Steady wrote: "Horn bass will smoke a sub-nt"


I do have good corners and walls specially strengthened for bass corner horns. I owned and used the bass bins of a pair of K-horns for four or five years under Oris 150 horns driven by AER-MD3s and Fostex t900a bullet tweeters. I was quite unhappy with the bass because it began sharply rolling off by the mid 30s Hz. My dissatisfaction was probably a result of enjoying true 20Hz bass extension for at least 17 or 18 years before the K-horns.

When horn bass does not sound better than sub bass is when the sub is horn loaded also. I settled on a pair of Bill Fitzmaurice HT Tuba 1/8th wave bass corner horn subs. I like them very much. I cross them over at 160 Hz with a roll off of 96 dB/octave. The crossover as well as many other functions is handled by a DEQX HDP-3. Without the DSP and the very steep slope the high crossover frequency would probably be a problem.

I sacrifice 5 or 6 dB of sensitivity which makes it possible to do only subtractive EQ (no bass boosts) and extend the bass response down to 20 HZ in my room. Sensitivity is still in the 96 or 97 dB/w/m range which is adequate for my modest needs.


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