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    Another view of the third midhorn:

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    I will modify the horn a bit to make the mouth 3.5" x 3.5" vice the standard 4.5" x 4.5" because I am going to use a new JBL Pro 2169H 8" mid driver for the center channel speaker. This driver was designed for a 4" mouth horn. A 4" circular opening is essentially the same area as a 3.5" x 3.5" mouth. I doubt the 2169H driver will reach 300 Hz, but if it can get to 350 Hz I will be happy.

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    Is that bamboo, or what am I seeing here?

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    It is bamboo. Crazy hard material should be great for a horn. I did not make this one, it is being gifted to me. One of the best gifts ever in my view!

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    Quote Originally Posted by NWCgrad View Post
    It is bamboo. Crazy hard material should be great for a horn. I did not make this one, it is being gifted to me. One of the best gifts ever in my view!
    Whoever gifted that should talk w/wayne at Pi speakers and see if he would want to stock them- that's really attractive. I'd probably not pursue it personally as I'm sure they'd have to be several benjamins but there's a market for a really great looking horn like that.

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    Out PHUNKIN Standing! craftsmanship!

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    I installed the VTX waveguide and 2453H-SL drivers today. Have not had time to measure to optimize. For now I have set the HF XO at 1 kHz, LR-4th order; MF at 200 Hz and 1 kHz, and LF at 200 Hz. I am sure it's not optimal in regards to phase, measurements will tell the story.

    I ran autoEQ on the dbx unit to equalize the volume of all the drivers and set preliminary PEQ. Sounds pretty fair for automated, no effort approach.
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    Front stage:
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    Outstanding! Howzit sound?

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    Very nice NWC!! Those are reminiscent of the VS 3218-6's. Very cool speaker!
    Always fun learning more.......

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    Thanks guys.. Right now they sound pretty good, just tweaking the XO/DSP a bit more. I will post some measurements once I get them off my crappy basement computer I use for measuring.

    The inspiration for the build was the 4345, the Cinema 5732, and the VS 3218-6.

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    Now that this build is mostly done, I am starting on a new center channel build.

    I do not have the room for a third one of these monsters, so am going with a similar three way design in a smaller footprint. Design will use a passive XO between the HF and MF drivers, active for the bass.

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    As I don't yet have an acoustically transparent screen, the speaker will have a rotatable HF/MF section. Inspired by the AM7315/95 and the VP7315 designs but with the VTX HF waveguide based on I found from this website site. The 2453H-SL driver sounds great on this waveguide, I did add a 1/2 in spacer between the waveguide and the driver due to phase plug differences outlined in the VTX waveguide thread.

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    Great project mister!

    Looking forward to those measurements when you get around to it. Using REW?


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    I am using REW, I need to put the files on a memory stick and transfer them to my main computer so I can post them. Sometimes I get lazy.

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    A few pictures of the Midhorn assembly and one REW graph of the Midhorn in action (taken at ~24 in, unsmoothed)
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    Looks like I can go out to 2 kHz with the CMCD-82H on this particular horn. I have purchased the components (inductors, capacitors, resistors) to build a variety of crossovers, starting with slightly modified JBL Pro designs (dropped the contour networks and notch filters as I will be running active PEQ to dial in the design).
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    I plan to build all these, test via REW and hopefully listening later on once I build the cabinets. Trying to dial in the XO first, as I know I will get distracted once the cabinet is built.

    Schematic of the center channel speaker:
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    I am thinking of running the two big speakers HF/MF on the dbx Venu360 (along with the pseudo 2-way center) and the LF for the mains using the Peavey unit. The Peavey unit is very limited on PEQ filters (5 per output) and I think I will be better served using the better dbx unit on all the higher frequencies and leaving the Peavey for the bass. I may try to modify the final MF/HF XO I develop for use with the mains, so I would have three pseudo 3-way speakers that could all be ran from the dbx unit.

    The idea for using a limited function XO for the MH/HF came from some of the newer JBL Pro designs that have a simple dividing network and rely on DSP for optimizing performance (JBL 7-series reference monitors, VTX M Series, and the VP7315 all come to mind). In fact, I modified a figure from the VTX M Series product literature for my schematic.

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    Ran a lot more REW measurements today:

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