Horn system pictures

[carolus]

Mac MC352

Sorry can't seem to post the picture itself.

Whole system here
www.aca.gr/pop_dreyer.htm

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Hi Johan,
congratulations with your "great" and spectacular new audio concept (before Christmas).
I can feel (barefoot!) the "bas" in my back garden ....
Allez, salukes en tot "horens".
Karel

[mafuta]

Karel

It was the photos of your magnificent system that started it! Especially the wood Iwatas.They continue to amaze me.Surely the most unhorn sounding horn ever!

The fat Iwata with the JBL 2490 was really the biggest surprise.It sounds so natural and undistorted. At times I almost think it is my old Quad electrostats(Of course until the dynamics swing in and I find myself in the kitchen!).That from a driver that has been called a "tin can" on this forum and elsewhere.

Thanks again for all your advice; the Iwatas,scaling up an Iwata,putting me on to ALE and then Goto and (most importantly) the alignment of the drivers

Johan

[golem841]

Karel

It was the photos of your magnificent system that started it! Especially the wood Iwatas.They continue to amaze me.Surely the most unhorn sounding horn ever!

The fat Iwata with the JBL 2490 was really the biggest surprise.It sounds so natural and undistorted. At times I almost think it is my old Quad electrostats(Of course until the dynamics swing in and I find myself in the kitchen!).That from a driver that has been called a "tin can" on this forum and elsewhere.

Thanks again for all your advice; the Iwatas,scaling up an Iwata,putting me on to ALE and then Goto and (most importantly) the alignment of the drivers

Johan

Hello "Mafuta"

I own a pair of 2490H drivers loaded in 2392 horns ; these are very big and quite ugly from my wife's opinion ...
(http://www.jblpro.com/pages/cinema/5000.htm#5671=)

After my visit to Karel, I'm almost ready to build Iwata Horns (1inch for the TAD2001 and ... 3 inches for the 2490) plus maybe a bass horn with 2 Altec 416 8A
Did you experimented anything else for the 2490 ?
Thank you
Yves

[mafuta]

Hi

No.I wanted to use a larger Iwata from 250 to 1kHz.Upscaling the Iwata 1.5X gave me a 3 inch throat and exactly 1 suitable driver in the whole world i.e .2490. So I bought a new pair blind.Hence the surprise about the sound of the tin can.Other avenues included 2482,Altec 290 or twin Goto 505(ouch!) on suitable adaptors ,but then the fat Iwata would have become too deep ,making physical alignment difficult (Karel will bend your ear on that! -but I fully agree on the importance thereof).

BTW you will not be sorry for all the hours (and money) spent on the Iwatas.Warning A fat Iwata plus driver must weigh close on 100kg!

Good luck

Johan

[Titanium Dome]

Okay all you hornies, no messing around this time. From Crystal Method's Legion of Boom comes this image replete with horns, arrays, and direct radiators.

[House de Kris]

OK, there have been some pretty awe inspiring pictures here of horn systems. I'll bring this thread back down to Earth with a more humble common-man take on horns. My picture is of a couple systems I usually use outdoors, typically back-to-back. Although, in this picture they are side-by-side for testing purposes indoors.