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In the Forum: Horn-Loaded Speakers
In the Thread: Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time.
Post Subject: Midbass nasal soundPosted by Romy the Cat on: 10/6/2010
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 Romy the Cat wrote:
To my huge surprise and pleasure my midbass horn has absolutely no honk. I heard bass honk in ANY, even the best midbass horns that I heard (BTW, some honk does not bothers me and I even consider it desirable).

 The subject of midbass nasal sound is very interesting. In addition to all OTHER aspects that might lead to midbass honk I would like to note that there is one that is in my view greatly overlooked – the precision of response. What I said that my new midbass horn has absolutely no honk then it does not mean that it has no nasal artifact under any condition. If I drive the horn in wrong frequency range and at worn volume then it will have all possible problem. What I do say is that when I very fine tune the horn in respect to my other channel and make the horn to operate in the mode that I would call “proper balance”, then the horn does not exposit any sights of nasal tone. I kind of even miss this very fine honk as I do like it. Live sound has it as well, and a very fine touch of it from horn is something that I like. My horn does not have it or perhaps I need to drive it a .25dB harder somewhere, I just do not know at this point where. His is what I am learning nowadays.

The absolutely biggest surprise that I got last night was that my new midbass horn sounds a lot like bass towers in my old room. It even a bit sad that so much efforts went into those damn horns and I pretty much ended up where I was before. Sure the bass towers did not work at all in new much large room; still I would like to feel that midbass horn ahs have some advantages. There is a great temptation to drive my midbass horn a bit harder, to show itself off. My observation that ANY SINGLE midbass horn that I heard did run a bit louder than it had to be. What I run my horn a bit louder (1/2dB-1dB) then I do have VERY impressive horn sound but it is not the sound that I would like to set up. Running the horn absolutely flat makes the midbass do not show it off, or show off ONLY when music is called upon. I am still debating where would be the perfect setting for midbass. I would like to have midbass clandestine but with some very fine touch of nasal infliction. It is very had to set it as at the frequencies that I am talking about a foot or two moving across the room means a db or two of change. So, the perfect balance might be set only for one single spot of the room.

I think the very final setting of midbass will be after I pit the lower bass in play. I might do it is a day or two to see how it will work all together. 

The Cat

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