HarleySG
Active Member
Wow, OP. Need a little fiber in your diet?
I was in no way condescending to your speakers. And if you want to get into a dick measuring contest about speakers, I assure you that you would walk away disappointed. The cornscalas have gone where many more expensive, exhalted speakers have tread, and done so pretty successfully.
I stand by my comment regarding Crown (or Behringer, take your pick) amps. Fortes deserve better.
But at the end of the day, it appears as though you know more than the rest of us, so disregard anything you might read here.
I was in no way condescending to your speakers. And if you want to get into a dick measuring contest about speakers, I assure you that you would walk away disappointed. The cornscalas have gone where many more expensive, exhalted speakers have tread, and done so pretty successfully.
I stand by my comment regarding Crown (or Behringer, take your pick) amps. Fortes deserve better.
But at the end of the day, it appears as though you know more than the rest of us, so disregard anything you might read here.
aper tubes make for ultra simple and fast experiments but they also sound very good. I have not replaced my paper tubes as they sound so good I have not had the desire to change them. There are lots of ways to make thin walled tubes but you don't want the tube to be resonant and the thin paper while not very strong is stiff enough to hold its form which is all you want it to do and it stores very little energy so it does not release much energy. I imagine that the paper tubes will be difficult to better. You can knock up a simple K-Tube for any driver and be listening to it in minutes time. They are very hard to find as so few were sold. In pro situations they had dispersion so wide that they often caused feedback with microphones on stage. In near field listening at home this is not an issue. I set up my double cutaway versions so they are parallel to the floor are at my seated ear level and I direct them at my seating location so that I can see straight down the tube the open cutaway section is vertical with the remaining solid side walls of the tube on the left and the right of the cut away profile. K-Tubes seem to act/behave like a plane wave tube with a sliding impedance termination which is the slot or cutaway section. There are a number of people who are using K-Tubes, Freddy is the go to guy for information. I am not aware of anyone else who runs double cutaway tubes nor anyone else who sets up their K-Tubes the way I do. I was not pleased with the set up that Karlson used. With single cutaway tubes I position them parallel to the floor at my seated ear height directed at the seating location with the solid section of the tubes facing the outside walls. Hope this is of interest.
