Newbie Essential Reading

Thanks for the links, really facinating stuff, but I must say some of this seems quite advanced to call newbie essential reading. Ive been reading posts on SP for months as I am very interested in speaker design . I built a few speakers when I was a youth from the eminence book which was amazing good fun ( both cobbling them together and testing at partys ). Now Im older and have been a carpenter for many years I have some skills, tools and funds to revive this hobby and make some tasty boxes, and I will be able to afford something better than the 400 watt peavey amp I had back then!

There are a few basic questions regarding horn type speakers for mid/top use which I would really appreciate any advice on.

My understanding is that the advantage of a horn style box is that they slightly amplify the sound from the speaker thus gaining a bit more volume than you would get from the same driver in a direct radiating box. Is this right? And how much extra volume do you gain, roughly percentage wise?

I imagine a horn style speaker has less dispersion than a direct radiating box, and guess this is an advantage if you use multiple boxes side by side as it would reduce cross filtering between cabinets. Have I got this right?

In a design like the MT102 / MT122 why couldn't the compression driver be mounted on the same baffle as the other drivers and use the same big horn mouth as them? I guess its because the CD needs the small end of the horn to be quite small thus meaning it needs to have its own horn?

Any replys / comments would be greatly appreciated

Thanks for a great website and resource

Guys, I would add the set of these four articles by founder of this forum. The Rog Mogale.

Very basic, very understandable, very important. Sometimes eye opening

http://www.performing-musician.com/search?Keyword=Building+your+own+PA&Year=+&Month=+&Words=All&Summary=No&Section=0&Subject=0&ShowResults=yes

Very helpful...thanks :)

Great post, nice one!

Com4tee wrote:

Guys, I would add the set of these four articles by founder of this forum. The Rog Mogale.

Very basic, very understandable, very important. Sometimes eye opening

http://www.performing-musician.com/search?Keyword=Building+your+own+PA&Year=+&Month=+&Words=All&Summary=No&Section=0&Subject=0&ShowResults=yes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=GL0tYjqvS70

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=KtPBFTuQ4l0

Edited by TRE4U2NV - 20 June 2012 at 2:37pm

IM SO SECRETIVE BUT I CANT TELL YOU WHY

Makes for interesting reading. Have a couple of cabinet building books on the shelf, but do intend to get some more when I find the better ones of the bunch.