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Horns can be damn loud. They have two drawbacks. 1. Very complicated, difficult to get right. 2. They sound nice. That cant be right for a high scoring box.....well im sure that when they get even louder, they will sound just as pants.
Regards - Geoff. 156.3 from a horn, SS 1-2. Plays smoooth from 35-100 Hz.
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Just so you know I was thinking about doing this for next year for 4 CV STROKER 18. I was contemplating it but wondeirgn what sort of opinions there are on this subject.
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You should get ahold of db Don and work with him on it. He's in Canada also (eh?).. LOL J/K. and quite the SPL horn authority it seems...Also I would be interested in formulas for designing horn enclosures if anyone could show me where to get started..
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What vehicle have you got? as horns are quite large - And you are thinking about 4 18s!!!
If you compromise a horns size, you will compromise a horns efficiency. You may want to first think about 2 18s. Ask db don about his bandpass horn, as it is a tad smaller than my conventional horn.
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db Don hey hmm I would lie kto contaxct him more about this kind of stuff I find it interesting. Maybe. Hmm pondeirng so yo udont think it wil lwork Dukk maybe Iwont try it.
Your right.
see ya
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Ben, from what I'm learning about horns so far(which isn't much yet) efficiency suffers when you decrease the horn size, even folded horns. I think they are saying that for 4 18s horn loaded, you would have to chop the relative enclosure size down so much that you would lose the benefits of the design. I don't know, maybe db DON knows something I didn't cover there.. Dukk is probably right but it is always worth it to at least explore all the possibilities..
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You can shrink them if you do it right, however then they stop acting like a horn and start acting like a long tube. There should be enough room. There's enough room behind the seat of an S-10 pickup for 2 horn boxes (for 12s) and still keep the passenger side jumpseat functional. I only have one box in there now (I have a new design for the 2 sub box), and you can see my scores below.
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