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    Posted: 31 March 2023 at 12:26pm
The system pictured on the front cover was built and went out to the USA as a demo system, it was at back at the factory when I went to visit. Steve Hewlett mentioned he had been asked about producing second book of designs. Sadly nothing came of it.
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Originally posted by APC321 APC321 wrote:

Thanks for the link to the Fane book.

Brings back some memories, as used this book for my first builds many years ago.

Lots of good info in there as well.

Yes the same. Angled 2 X 12 was mine. The ozvalveamps website mentioned in the thread (still has the fane book for download) was also a blast from the play, how the websites used to look LOL
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Well... If I should do a complete low end section today, just for fun and nothing else, it would be 12 TT1000 from Danish Storm Sound. Loaded with the trusty Fane 18B600. 6 each side could eat 1500 people going crazy.
Similar to a ES18BPH, but better sounding. 

They can't match the same amount of drivers in BR when it comes to low end extension, but the amount of energy they produce is just so intense LOL
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote csg Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 30 March 2023 at 4:01pm
Back then, 60-80Hz was more important than 40-50Hz in big rock systems, and thats where a big pile of horns would win, particularly if you only had dc300’s or if you were posh maybe BGW’s to drive the rig 
But i agree, in today’s world reflex is the way to go.
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The funny thing with the Fane book, is that the cab with the most output at 50Hz is the 2 x 15" reflex section on the full range modular cab. Has 10dB more output than any of the horns at 50Hz, and plays the lowest out of everything.

How times have moved on with everyone using reflex these days lol.
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FANE Book is A+.
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I bought the fane and eminence books when i was a school boy many moons ago. Wish i still had them
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote APC321 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 29 March 2023 at 4:57pm
Thanks for the link to the Fane book.

Brings back some memories, as used this book for my first builds many years ago.

Lots of good info in there as well.
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Old thread, I know... I wanted to keep this manual alive.

It seems that BB Code isn't working in the forum, so here is the copy/paste link to the Fane Loudspeaker Enclosure Design and Construction pdf.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/2uuhjwkbialnj6o/Fane%20Loudspeaker%20Enclosure%20Design%20and%20Construction.pdf?dl=0

We are bringing some EV MTL-4B cabinets back to life with new B&C drivers for one of my projects. I'd love to embed that here as well...



Oh well, here's a link instead: https://www.dropbox.com/s/99ljdc4yvvmlvgn/MTL-4B%20Photo.jpg?dl=0


Edited by thedjelectron - 29 March 2023 at 3:50pm
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No, it would not be hard, but I was hoping to start with a 'fresh' version. Reverse engineering them would be a bit like taking a photo-copy of a photo-copy. I may well end up doing that though.

You are correct with regards to the DSP. We have used them with various processors and the results were excellent.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote fatfreddiescat Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 20 April 2017 at 9:41pm
Wharfdale and Fane were for a while under the same roof, I saw their prototype system when I took some cabs to the factory for testing, the drivers iirc were 15xb's in their cabs and they are 6th order bandpass.
They were sold with an electronic processor which shouldn't be hard to replicate with a dsp. I can't see it taking much effort to measure them up to replicate.
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djeddie, thank you for jogging my memory! You are correct, they are Wharfedale designs and we used the FANE 15XB drivers, since that was what was recommended. The drivers were rated at 600W at the time. The latest versions are rated at 800W, I believe.
 
I thought these designs were given to me by someone at FANE, but looking into it further, it was in fact Wharfedale.
 
The lines around FANE and Wharfedale are somewhat blurred in my view. Is there a connection? I though there is/was, but that was just speculation on my part.
 
I wonder how I would go about getting the designs from Wharfedale ...


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