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    Posted: 25 October 2010 at 3:39pm
24 inches is a little wide for my living room and I'd like to have a bass horn. I was wondering if I could take this plan and narrow it to maybe 18 inches and use a 12" in it instead.
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Changing the width will affect the response from the cab, What driver do you intend to put in it, as this will have a major effect on response aswell? 

If its for your living I would look into other options available ;) 
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this guy changed the with from 636mm to 536mm

Edited by djyves - 25 October 2010 at 5:33pm
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I was thinking about using this driver
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Thanks Djy for the link... cool build page.
 
I guess my thinking there should be some kind of horn design that would work with a 12 inch speaker.
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http://www.freespeakerplans.com/plans.html

take a look at some of these
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Wow, lots of cool stuff, thanks!
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If you're after a horn for a 12" driver, look at the Punisher. You need to use the Ciare driver which it's designed for though. That Eminence won't cut it.
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then have a RLH (BLH) instead of a FLH, or even a TH

you could design a nice cab for a 12'' driver 


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You could also have a look into some of the designs from Billfitzmaurice.com 
The plans are cheap, and are based around some cheap eminence drivers, if it is for the living room TV/Movies/Music I'd go for the THT which can be built slim.

There is also some good tapped horn designs over on diyaudio.com in the subwoofer section. Jbell has a single sheet plan, that uese the eminence 3015lf, 
Don Synder has a tapped horn design for the Lab 12 - http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/subwoofers/143714-lab12-tapped-horn.html
And Lil mike has plans for a 6'5" driver
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Lil mikes tapped horn - http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=1238398 

Jbells single sheet tapped horn  http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/subwoofers/170771-single-sheet-th-challenge-6.html

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how about this one with a very cheep driver
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