When a bass reflex enclosure works alongside a horn-loaded mid or upper section, the woofer no longer has the luxury of covering a wide bandwidth on its own.…
The theoretical limit of human hearing sits at roughly 20 kHz, yet audio engineers continue chasing frequencies beyond this threshold with renewed conviction.…
Checking the electrical load around a passive crossover is one of the most revealing tests for a custom horn-loaded loudspeaker. It shows whether the driver,…
The crossover region where a compression driver hands off to a large woofer remains one of the trickiest acoustic boundaries in a high-efficiency loudspeaker.…
Internal crossover wiring looks like a small detail beside a large horn, compression driver or heavily braced cabinet. In a carefully engineered loudspeaker,…
Horn loudspeakers are often associated with dynamic midrange, high sensitivity and a vivid sense of presence. Their influence on a listening room, however,…
Cabinet edges are among the quietest sources of colouration in a high-efficiency loudspeaker, yet their effect can be obvious in a revealing system. When a…
For decades, designers of horn-loaded loudspeakers have obsessed over the throat geometry where the diaphragm meets the air. A compression driver is a…
Transient response in a horn-loaded loudspeaker separates a faithful reproduction of a struck cymbal from a soft, smeared impression of the same event. In…
For Australians, “pokies” can mean very different things depending on where the game is played. A machine in a Melbourne hotel or club operates under Victorian…