Horn loudspeakers make cabinet behaviour unusually easy to hear. Their high sensitivity and rapid transient response can reveal a panel that rings after the…
A horn-loaded loudspeaker can deliver remarkable clarity, dynamics and efficiency, yet its compression driver and woofer do not automatically arrive at the…
A loudspeaker can reproduce the right notes and still make instruments sound subtly artificial. Timbre depends on much more than frequency response: transient…
A compression driver can deliver exceptional clarity, dynamics and efficiency, but it depends heavily on the frequency range assigned to it. The crossover…
Audio designers often describe the baffle step as a quiet thief of upper bass. When a driver on a rectangular panel radiates, the cabinet edges behave as an…
Damping material is essential in a horn-loaded loudspeaker, but adding more is not automatically better. Felt, wool, acoustic foam and fibrous lining can…
Horn mouth curvature hides in plain sight among loudspeaker design variables. A horn can look impressive on a stand, with its flared wooden mouth promising…
In high-end horn-loaded systems, the high-frequency channel often carries the personality of the entire speaker. A few decibels too much energy at the top end…
In high-efficiency horn-loaded loudspeakers, the crossover is not an afterthought but a structural element that shapes how every driver behaves. At Sunship…
A compression driver is designed to work into a carefully controlled acoustic impedance, not to radiate freely into an empty box. Its small diaphragm, phase…