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Your mid spacing will lead to lobes in the vertical coverage pattern. The main lobe will get smaller as you go up in frequency. The size of that lobe at your crossover freq is a limit on the vertical coverage angle of the system. So, the narrower your design vertical coverage, the higher the crossover frequency can be. Using this method you can space the drivers more than a quarter-wave.

What you have to trade against this is, can your compression driver/horn combo really go that low and not start to distort at power? Manufacturer's specs can be misleading - you often have to double the specified usable lower limit. And compression drivers have a harder time driving smaller horns. Generally, beefy comps and carefully chosen horns with the lowest possible horn cutoff freq are the way to go.



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I’m also interested to know exactly what happens once you’ve been forced outside of the 1/2 wave coupling distance even though the drivers are still touching / very close together ? 

What are the negative effects after this point ? 

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Phase issues and therefore distortion in the range over the point of 1/2 wavelength. Is that corrrect?
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I was hoping that you were the genius here ! Lol 
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Here's something for you to play with:









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Originally posted by moyano moyano wrote:

I’m also interested to know exactly what happens once you’ve been forced outside of the 1/2 wave coupling distance even though the drivers are still touching / very close together ? 

What are the negative effects after this point ? 

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It’s not 1/2 lambda for coupling. At 1/2 lambda you’re in full cancellation.
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Yes, destructive interference can start at 1/2 lambda. The idea is to keep all drivers between 1/4 and 1/2 lambda. 

I was wondering what else happens between 1/2 and 1 for example. But if interference starts at 1/2 then surely nothing good can come of it. 

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One method to get a better picture of what happens is to measure the response at various degrees off axis and import it into a program such as Vituixcad. You can then add copies of the measured response, adjust spacings and angles and then scroll through the frequencies whilst viewing the 'Polars' etc graphs.
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Not quite right. Summation occurs in the ‘coupling zone’ of the 'phase wheel'. Where that can get confusing is that the cycle isn't really in a 2D plane, but along a cylinder that represents 'laps' behind or ahead of the current frame of reference to relative phase.

This a good place to start:
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There is so much to learn in the field of acoustics, it gets easier if you read heavy books I guess but I learn by doing, so there are some conclusions I have came about but they also change over time as they where wrong. So I'm no genius, merely a student. But an enthusiastic one :)
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I’d love to know how the new nexo ID 84 works. 

I thought that multiple dome tweeters would cause issues. 
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