CD horns have a unique sound compared to sectoral and multicellular horns, especially if listened to without any add EQ. When I was looking for an appropriate horn for my 288G drivers, I tried a 311-90 and a metal MR94 and wound up with the MR94 because of how it sounded on male and female voices. Now I’m using a 1003b in my new system to see how it sounds across multiple style of music. One 5hing I do believe, the bigger the horn the better the sound quality, using horns that were meant for large venues when used in smaller rooms have lower distortion and sound cleaner to me, of course this is just my opinion. Cool setup
Really nice! So I looked up the speakers but couldn’t find anything similar to what you have. Did you custom make the horns? Can you tell us more about it, they’re so killer! I’d love to create something similar
Thanks! Yes, the midbass-horns under the 2360 are custom made by me. They are a modified copy of the fibreglass J-horns. Here is a building thread on the Norwegian Hifisentralen-forum: www.hifisentralen.no/forumet/threads/diy-j-horn-med-jbl-2220h.105857/
Hello karlson, thanks! Check my building blog at Hifisentralen, there are some drawings there: www.hifisentralen.no/forumet/threads/diy-j-horn-med-jbl-2220h.105857/
Sounds amazing, but WHY have you done this to me?!?! :p I haven't even received the 4675's I scored off eBay and now I'm introduced to the J-horn. Great work. O_O Where are crossing everything over, if you don't mind my asking?
If I remember correct, it is roughly looking like this: 2241: 30 Hz up to 160Hz, 2220: 150Hz up to 550, 2446: 550Hz up to 18kHz. Fairly steep filters at the crossovers. I use Crown DCI amps with full DSP, that made it easy to set up crossovers and EQfilters in Audio Architect.
HP is now set at 30Hz, LP at 160Hz. The cabinet is an original JBL 4645. I use a Crown DCI 2/1250N for the the two bass speakers, and they have a very good DSP. I used a lot og time to find the right placement, using REW and Umic2 for measuring and getting good results.
I have building plans on them, yes. These are based on the J-Horns (made in fiberglass), which again are based on a short-version JBL 4550. I have a short building blog on the Norwegian Hifisentralen: www.hifisentralen.no/forumet/threads/diy-j-horn-med-jbl-2220h.105857/ Here is a comparison on hornprofiles between my horns (based on J-horns) and the 4550: www.hifisentralen.no/forumet/threads/diy-j-horn-med-jbl-2220h.105857/post-3690214
Hei Joalin! Thanks for your comment! Yes, you can buy the original J-Horn from Auto-Tech in Poland. It is made of glassfibre, and are pretty expensive! Mine are a slightly larger DIY-copy of them, made of 19mm MDF and BB 18mm plywood. If you want a price estimate on them, please contact me on Messenger: facebook.com/hunsbedttrebygg
Originally, the first choice was the BMS 4592ND. Since I got hold of the JBL 2446H at a reasonable price, this driver was used. And it works great here in this setup. Then I'll see if there will be a change later sometime. Первоначально первым выбором был BMS 4592ND. Так как мне в руки попал JBL 2446H по приемлемой цене, то и использовался этот драйвер. И это прекрасно работает здесь, в этой настройке. Тогда я посмотрю, будут ли изменения позже когда-нибудь.
Midrange is somewhat nasal, highs sibilant and mid bass is much too exaggerated. I'm sorry but it's what I hear at least from this youtube upload. Maybe in person it's much better. Most people don't hear speaker colorations as keenly as I do. I've been to audio shows where people are raving over some speaker's sound but I will often hear bothersome colorations that they do not pick up on. I'm sorry I don't mean to be overly critical.
I DO NOT have any professional recording equipment. All is done with my Mobile phone, a Huawei P20Pro. The microphone is tiny, and give colorations on the sound recorded, of course. I can assure you, it sounds much better iin real life. ;)
