

- #Soundar with horn tweeter drivers
- #Soundar with horn tweeter driver
- #Soundar with horn tweeter free
While not quite as efficient as using a compression driver, the waveguide can have beneficial effects. There is a kind of intermediate kind of speaker that places a waveguide in front of a dome or cone speaker. It's a kind of acoustic transformer.ĭome tweeters also produce concentrated sound but they make no effort to match the impedance of their diaphragm to that of the room so they are far less efficent.
#Soundar with horn tweeter driver
The waveguide helps match the acoustic impedance of the compression driver which produces highly concentrated sound, to the impedance of the room which receives dispersed sound.
#Soundar with horn tweeter drivers
The waveguide receives sound from the compression drivers tubular passage and guides the sound out into the room in ways that depend on the shape of the waveguide. A compression driver is composed of a magnet and diaphragm assembly that looks quite a bit like a dome tweeter, but that is covered by a device called a phasing plug that gathers sound from all over the diaphragm and collects it into a tubular passage. Most horn speakers that are midranges or tweeters are composed of a compression driver and a waveguide. At higher frequencies the side of the dome itself provides some additional directivity because the speaker's diaphragm diameter starts approaching 1/2 wavelength and cancellation reduces off-axis response. It restricts the directivity of the dome to 180 degrees at low frequencies. Your typical Dome speaker is mounted on a flat plate, which acts as a simple waveguide. Horn-loaded speakers are also called "waveguide" speakers. Not to mention, to me, horns always sounded kind of strident and peaky to me in a home environment. But for most home use, the wider dispersion domes often would be better.

I know, supposedly, the "horn" should be designed so that its driver is ideally located, but for all frequencies?Īs for my opinion, I always thought horns were great for large areas and for maximum output such as auditoriums and such. So in that case with dome tweeters, IF care is taken to make sure things aren't in the way to the sides of a dome tweeter because of causing undesirable effects, what does that say about having the tweeter drivers inside a small, box shaped horn with sides bouncing the waves around inside it? Possibly introducing some kind of IM distortion? Anyway, that is some of what I read regarding the "cons" of horn tweeters.
#Soundar with horn tweeter free
high frequencies radiating from the dome tweeter are free to disperse free of interference from the sides of the enclosure or the other drivers in the same cabinet. For instance, one of the design features often pointed out on typical 2 or three way speakers using dome tweeters is that the tweeter is positioned in a proper plane relative to the other drivers so phasing is correct and. The horn does acoustically amplify the tweeter output as was noted, but others have said it can also introduces a type of IM distortion since you have high frequency sound waves bouncing around inside the horn itself. Well, along with the directional aspects of horn tweeters, there are some other things that I has always noticed and also read about. So what makes a better tweeter, horn or dome, or other? There are a few other small differences, magnet size and slight difference in midrange, and whatnot.īut the big difference is the 1530 has a "Sensitivity: 90 dB." While the EV15 has "Sensitivity: 95dB 2.83V/1 watt, 1 meter."īased off of that, it seems like horn makes a better tweeter. The 1530's have "2 1/2" fluid cooled tweeter", while the EV15's have "one high efficiency horn tweeter with extended output to 116dB". If one is better than the other, then why do some manufactures still make them? Horns have been called "bright" and other creative adjectives. What are the pros and cons between the two? Obviously, there is a sound difference. I was going to post this there, but it's really better suited here. So I went through the Speaker Forum and could not find any info.
