general question about (186) horns

Hi there,

first I'd like to excuse myself for my english, I'm Czech and thus not so good as you guys

Q: I'd love to build 186 horns, but as said previously at this forum they don't work fine unless you have a stack of 2-4. My question is: why is it so? Why does not single horn work OK? I do mainly indoor actions with audience of 300 - 500 people. To date I used to borrow a pair of 18" scoops, but their sound is not so clear...I expect horns to be better. One more Q: how do horns sound inside?

I'm thinking of building two 186's loaded with RCF LF18G401, powered 2k and used as central stack of 2, would that be enough?

thx for rplys, Killer

Horns mostly are not used on their own if you want deep lows, as you need many [coupled together] to achieve the frequencies and SPL and impact you want.

However things like the Punisher horn can be used on their own. But even them sound better in a stack;as they are louder and get lower and move more air when stacked vus making more impact on your chest.

So a stack of 2x 186 horns per stack should be fine indoors for around 300-500 people like you say.But 2 won't go very low, probably down to I say,48hz. But if you want extreme sub lows, more impact and more SPL, you need more 186 horns. To get down to 30hz for example you probably need 8x 186 horns or a different design.

Really depends on what music you play at the end of the day, how loud you want it and how forcefull you want the bass to be?

 

 

 

 

Yeah i'm over my 12's for mains(they're going to be stage monitors soon),got some neo 15's(sn15mb) on their way to go in some dual 15" with 2" exit comps(BM750's). Not the best quality I know but I'm pretty certain the general public will enjoy and SPL won't be an issue <300 people ;)