Name that horn............

[RacerXtreme]

Anyone recognize these horns ?

http://www.mypages.iparenting.com/webs/racerxtreme/hornz1.jpg

[Rolf]

Not sure, but the bass horns looks home made. The ones in the front looks like ... Capella? ... not sure if the spelling in right.

[Steve Schell]

The speaker components are all either ALE or Goto Unit, both companies residing in Japan. These components are unspeakably expensive, reportedly the best in the world, and very few have folks have heard them and thus been in a position to comment one way or the other. The largest bass horns and drivers are definitely produced by ALE.

I have corresponded with the owner of this system in the past, but it was years ago and I no longer remember the details. He is certainly an example of money in the right hands.

Kevin Brooks of Provo Utah is the U.S. distributor for ALE (Audio Laboratory Endo). I heard his system using the ALE midbass horns and bass compression drivers ($65k) about three years ago, and it was a shattering experience. The sound was so live, so REAL that I was overwhelmed. It set me on a course of producing my own bass compression drivers that persists to this day.

[Rolf]

So, the bass horns are factory build? What is the "small" horns in the front?

[Mr. Widget]

Here is an earlier thread that has a lot of info on this system including many photos of several iterations of this fellow's over the top horn based systems:

http://audioheritage.org/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=3731


So, the bass horns are factory build? What is the "small" horns in the front?The name may be discussed on the thread I posted above or in one of it's associated links. Here is a close up of them.

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[Mr. Widget]

In that photo above he is using a pair of ALE or GOTO tweeters... in this photo he seems to still be using them but with an additional stack of TAD ET-703s... I wonder what his fascination with multiple tweeters is? Typically it is best to use a single source, especially at high frequencies...


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[Zilch]

There's a paper on stacked tweeter arrays over in the JBL Pro tech library. Several, actually.

Can't say I much like the results, tho.

Maybe for big-venue SR, but not for home.

[Lobe City....]

http://www.jblpro.com/pub/technote/tn_v1n07.pdf

http://www.jblpro.com/vertec1/doug%20button%20258%20final%20rev%20c.pdf

http://www.jblpro.com/vertec1/vertec_manual/AES_MarkE_DirRadiation.pdf

[RacerXtreme]

http://www.mypages.iparenting.com/webs/racerxtreme/bighorns.jpg
http://www.mypages.iparenting.com/webs/racerxtreme/Molinear4.jpg

[Rolf]

Those big woofers looks like 24" Hartley's, don't they?

[edgewound]

Those big woofers looks like 24" Hartley's, don't they?

Those are actually Electro-Voice 30W's...of which I have one...with a slight VC rub.

The Hartley's I've seen, I believe had a white cone. Clarion made a 24" car subwoofer a few years ago too...and Audiobahn makes a titanium/aluminum cone 34" sub:blink:

[JBLRaiser]

My God, 34 inches. :jawdrop:And I'm just getting my first 15 this week.

[JBLRaiser]

http://cgi.ebay.com/VINTAGE-ELECTRO-VOICE-EV-30-W-PATRICIAN-30-INCH-WOOFER_W0QQitemZ320018427378QQihZ011QQcategoryZ505 97QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

[Mr. Widget]

No citation, but I will post that in the Market Place... it is possible someone may be looking for one... and that seems to be a real find.

Here it'll just be buried.

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