What's the catch - horns and compression drivers 2/II.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ต.ค. 2024
- -What does a compression driver do WITHOUT A HORN?
-How does the horn modify its response?
Do you know what the best dome tweeter can do?
Do you know what compression drivers can do?
Food for thought about tweeter technology. That was the previous episode...
now we delve into the mystery of compression drivers and horns!
This is part of the A5 VOTT series, looking at the compression driver used in the A5.
Currently there is little to no information on how to build cabinets for 515 and 288 series drivers. I'm stirring up the scene, and throwing this stone in the pond to rediscover these magnificent drivers, which are supposedly the finest high efficiency woofer and the finest compression driver ever made.
I've built my speakers with 515C and 288H. I call them Voice of Lancelot (VOL). They do not follow any currently available cabinet concepts or designs, they are the result of my two decades long research and know-how passed on to me by one of the greatest minds of high end audio (Stu Ono), who broke down ever single speaker design and taught me how to improve on them. Sadly, he is gone, but his legacy shall continue.
VOL includes a few groundbreaking concepts, the synthesis of the current cabinet design principles, backed by music instrument making principles, adapted for human auditory systems requirements and the actual room requirements (as opposed to designing for an-echoic chambers and optimizing for measurements rather than human hearing). This video series will start introducing these ideas to help you get ideas to build your own design, and enrich your life with truly astounding musical instruments. As the saying goes, once you go Altec, you can't go back.... the adage is true, a properly built Altec is what I (and many) think as the finest music reproduction instrument available in our age. Even better, you can use other drivers, you will be able to apply what you learn, and leap to the next level!
Kaplah.
MUSIC: Wolgemut Schauspeluden. CD.
Fantastic Series! I've learnt quite a lot from your channel.
P.S. Not to sound offending at all, as someone suffering from migraines on and off, I'd truly appreciate if there was no background music :)
Thank you! Sorry about the background music. My newer videos are safer for you, only very few have background music.
@@realworldaudio Thanks! I did manage to play the video with minimum volume and captions on, your content is amazing. I don't find many TH-cam channels that go into the why and how of audio like you do!
@@vikassm Thank you! I will stay away from background music for future videos ; ).
Any alternative ‘modern’ compression drivers next to the Altec 288?
I can recommend the Fostex compression drivers.
Check out Eminence TeXtreme N314X-8. The specs are incredible, as well as hearing experience. Yet more people say "mellow" driver from them is Eminence F110M-8
, but this is different league, and you can find a replacement of a different manufacturer easy in terms of specs.