what tops sound best over 186
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Forum Name: 1850 and 186 horns
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Topic: what tops sound best over 186
Posted By: CritikalMass
Subject: what tops sound best over 186
Date Posted: 05 August 2013 at 11:04pm
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Just curious on opinions, thinking of upgrading. We play heavy bass and need loud crisp tops that cross nicley with our es18bph cabs. At the moment we cross subs 35-80 kicks 80-200 and pick the rest up with full range pa speakers. Cheers for all and any input. |
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Posted By: all bass
Date Posted: 05 August 2013 at 11:11pm
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How many tops are you planning on running each side? MT122 are great but have very narrow dispersion so you would need atleast 2-3 a side to give a wider dispersion. mt130 also a very popular design. |
Posted By: CritikalMass
Date Posted: 05 August 2013 at 11:15pm
| Thanks, we plan for two per side initially and then get another two later. Can you Reccomend anything like this? |
Posted By: CritikalMass
Date Posted: 05 August 2013 at 11:18pm
| Sorry I mean is there any other designs that would work? Maybe single 15 + 2" comp really want to keep down to single amp and want to be able to daisy chain two per channel on the amp |
Posted By: all bass
Date Posted: 06 August 2013 at 5:19am
You won't need a 15 inch top if you are running then from 180-200 up. You could look into some X12 style 12"+1" or 2x12" + 1" reflex tops with passive x-overs.
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CritikalMass wrote:Posted By: CritikalMass
Date Posted: 06 August 2013 at 3:34pm
| Ok, have looked at x12 and 2x12 +1 cabs and was wondering if a similer design could be applicable to a 2x8 + 1" with a mid horn. |
Posted By: CritikalMass
Date Posted: 06 August 2013 at 3:35pm
| The two 8" drivers mounted in mid horns would be better with high freq mounted in front.a 10" MT kinda design. |
Posted By: Mark James
Date Posted: 27 August 2013 at 11:23am
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Im going to be going down doobers route tops wise with our 186bins 40-125hz (ish may adjust wen measurements are taken) will need 2or more amps tho 10"reflex tuned to 80ish shud work ------------- insert silly sentence here |