multiple times over. I'm having trouble seeing what the big deal is. They don't look particulary complicated. Do they not have tradeoffs just like any other design? Is it a trend or a true improvement in audio reproduction?Waveguides...they look like horns.
Waveguides...they look like horns.
The guys at diyaudio are multiple times over. I'm having trouble seeing what the big deal is. They don't look particulary complicated. Do they not have tradeoffs just like any other design? Is it a trend or a true improvement in audio reproduction?
multiple times over. I'm having trouble seeing what the big deal is. They don't look particulary complicated. Do they not have tradeoffs just like any other design? Is it a trend or a true improvement in audio reproduction?-
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Re: Waveguides...they look like horns.
With the space available in the mouth of an OT or in the chamber of a DR commercially manufactured options will be very hard to find and if you do find it, the horizontal dispertion will probably not be too good.
The DIY waveguide is perfectly sized for the given space and has horizontal dispertion superior to 99% of the commercially avalable ones.
Other designs may very often have a whole lot of space available so commercial options will be a a bunch more, making a custom solution quite unnecessary, horizontal dispertion won't be better than the DIY waveguide but many people listen more with their eyes than their ears and choose a regular horizontally oriented horn over anything else anyways.
The final answer is, Bill's designs sure benefit from them, other designs might not because good horizontal dispertion is always wanted but if the design wont sell, then what's the advantage?
The DIY waveguide is perfectly sized for the given space and has horizontal dispertion superior to 99% of the commercially avalable ones.
Other designs may very often have a whole lot of space available so commercial options will be a a bunch more, making a custom solution quite unnecessary, horizontal dispertion won't be better than the DIY waveguide but many people listen more with their eyes than their ears and choose a regular horizontally oriented horn over anything else anyways.
The final answer is, Bill's designs sure benefit from them, other designs might not because good horizontal dispertion is always wanted but if the design wont sell, then what's the advantage?
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Re: Waveguides...they look like horns.
Most of the buzz about waveguides comes from one source, a source that sells them in both raw form and in finished speakers. Make of that what you will.
Re: Waveguides...they look like horns.
They don't have to be complicated. A trumpet has a similar shape for some very good resons. It's all about imaging and when you play a recording of a trumpet it sounds like a trumpet and not like a cuzoo!E.M. wrote:The guys at diyaudio are
Wave guides do not produce the loabing and distortion artifacts more commonly associated with difraction horns. Some examples are the 18Sound xt1086 and the Dayton H12rw.