Hi John: Many years ago after installing a new component Hi-Fi system into my house you could hear noise coming out of the speakers that was objectionable. I took the Scott power amp back to the high end audio store where I purchased it and complained. It was meeting specs. The problem was the speakers. Rather than degrade the speakers the Scott was returned and replaced with McIntosh equipment and that solved the problem.
The speakers were Voice of the Theater. A 15' woofer set back so it's voice coil is in the same vertical plane as the voice coil in the horn. The gap between the woofer and the front of the box was filled in with an exponential horn. This construction kept the phase of the sound at the crossover frequency (500 Hz) in phase. With 1 mw drive you could hear a 1 kHz tone from across the room and the noise level on the Scott amp was some big number of dB down from max output. After calculating the noise level it turned out to be maybe 10 dB above 1 mw. So I'd say that excellent speakers may or may not make everything else unimportant. Have Fun, Brooke Clarke w/Java http://www.PRC68.com w/o Java http://www.pacificsites.com/~brooke/PRC68COM.shtml http://www.precisionclock.com Neon John wrote: > > I feel yer pain buddy! My real Klipsches didn't survive a fire. Gawd > I miss those horns. Those proved that excellent speakers make > everything else in the system relatively unimportant. > > John, did you copy the folded horn design or just the looks. I've > pondered trying to build another set but I think that degree of > woodworking skill is just beyond my capabilities. > > John > --- > John De Armond > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list [email protected] https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts
