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Usually only drivers which have high efficiency, low Qts 0. Tapped horn alignments also tend to be more suited to pro audio duty rather than home subwoofer duty, due to the size requirements needed to execute a "proper" tapped horn, where the gain at the higher end of the passband is enough to ensure that any out of band response peaks are not significantly higher than the passband.

Nevertheless, there are several DIY examples of tapped horns with significant out of band response peaks available on the Internet. One of the problems with taking that approach however is that those high out of band response peaks also amplify any harmonic distortion components that happen to occur at the same frequencies, and those cannot be eliminated by those methods.

The net required volume will be smaller and you won't have to deal with the out of band response peaks. You will be giving up a bit of efficiency in the process however. Tapped horns are a bit more complex than transmission lines to design and therefore you should spend a lot of time making sure that your simulation is correct before committing it to wood to make sure that you're not disappointed with the results.

Design Notes: For these design notes, I will step you through the design process for a simple single-expansion tapped horn. My tool of choice for designing tapped horns is Hornresp. There may be better tools out there, but Hornresp is simple to use once you learn how to use it! This is a cheap but decent quality 12" pro audio driver with a nice low Fs and Qts, making it suitable for a number of different designs.

The following image shows the parameters for a Hornresp sim of this "classical" type of transmission line. A brief outline of what's shown in the sim above: Ang - for comparison purposes, this shouild always be set at "2.

At this point, we can select "Tools Now, let's see what the predicted response of this sim looks like As is expected with the use of an end-load design like this one, there's this massive notch in the response between Hz and Hz. Now, let's see if we can deal with that notch by using a tapped horn alignment instead.

First, let's change the Hornresp sim to that of a tapped horn. To do this, we're going to add values for S4 and L34, change the L34 expansion to "Par" and change the type of simulation from OD offset driver to TH tapped horn. Let's have a look at what the response looks like, by using Hornresp's Loudspeaker wizard.

It should not look much different from the end-loaded transmission line's response, because we haven't really moved the driver to the best location yet to extend the passband. From this point, we're going to "move" the driver's location into the line, by adjusting the values for L12 and L34, using the simulated schematic as a guide.

The result will look something like the diagram below. Now, we need to adjust the length and taper of the line to achieve the flattest frequency response. To do this, we're going to set the calculation for S2 and S3 to "Auto" by double-clicking where it says "Manual" , and basically adjust S1, S4 and L23 and L12 and L34 if necessary until we get something useful, e.

Illustrated below is just one possible tapped horn alignment for this particular driver that meets most of these requirements. The tapped horn alignment illustrated above is large compared to an offset transmission line alignment with the same low frequency extension using the same driver, but it also is quite a bit more efficient. The out of band response peaks are around 6dB above the passband I would aim for them to be no higher than that , and the passband itself is not quite flat, so it's not perfect, but it's a good compromise.

A tapped horn alignment with smoother response can be achieved using this driver, but this will require further tweaking of the Hornresp simulation. For example, converting the simulation into a dual-expansion tapped horn by defining values for S5 and L45 in the "Input Parameters" window and adding a bit of damping to the first half of the line, the response illustrated below can be achieved. Generating a good-looking simulation of a tapped horn in Hornresp is not that difficult to do.

Converting the simulation into an actual build is where the real challenge lies. Usually it's a lot easier to just start with a known tapped horn "fold" basically a tapped horn folded into the form of a box and modifying it to work with the driver that you want to use. Under the "Horn Folding" section of this website, I've provided several workbooks that describe some of the more common tapped horn folds - these workbooks can be used to modify the dimensions of the box and the location of the internal panels to produce a tapped horn that will get the best results from the driver that want to use.

The workbooks will automatically generated the required parameters for a Hornresp simulation of the tapped horn that is illustrated in the workbook.

Tapped horn resources and projects on the internet:. In a tapped horn design, the driver is usually located near the mouth, but different positions can be used, depending on the what response characteristics are being aimed for.

Section 2.0 : Construction and Measurement of a Simple Test Transmission Line

TLS50, I hated everything about them! It has to be the 80s every time. Info: Clements RT-7 transmission line speakers. Welcome to listen to her too.

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New Posts. Members Profile. Post Reply. I found what I believe to be the specs for my Mordaunt Short DSB woofers the other day and as I'd been reading a little recently about the theory behind transmission line speakers I decided to embark on a little exercise. With a qts of. The box is basically a 2. There is no narrowing of the line and the terminus has the same CSA.

Nike Transmission Line Design - icon.co.za

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29hz transmission line (home audio)

Usually only drivers which have high efficiency, low Qts 0. Tapped horn alignments also tend to be more suited to pro audio duty rather than home subwoofer duty, due to the size requirements needed to execute a "proper" tapped horn, where the gain at the higher end of the passband is enough to ensure that any out of band response peaks are not significantly higher than the passband. Nevertheless, there are several DIY examples of tapped horns with significant out of band response peaks available on the Internet. One of the problems with taking that approach however is that those high out of band response peaks also amplify any harmonic distortion components that happen to occur at the same frequencies, and those cannot be eliminated by those methods. The net required volume will be smaller and you won't have to deal with the out of band response peaks. You will be giving up a bit of efficiency in the process however.

Electromagnetic Field Interaction with Transmission Lines

Nike Transmission Line Design - icon. For that one needs drivers thatrespond very fast with no co ne break-up, an enclosure that can go down low without co louring thesound, and a crossover that do not induce phase shifts and differences in the crossover area toensure holographic precise placement of instruments. The baffle had to prevent interferencebetween the drivers, between the drivers and the baffle edges, and the enclosure sides had to betotally silent and vibration free even at high volumes and pumping low frequencies. The above requirements dictated every design decision made in creating the Nike s. Noother enclosure design can get close to the bass and midrange response of transmission lines. This, co upled to the requirement to go low without a sub, will make for big enclosures, and I meanhuge.

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Originally Posted by BlindMelon7. Would you agree that there is something very wrong with the response of these speakers, or am I expecting too much from them? Well, I rest my case. The dip is typical for reflex type enclosures.

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Engineering Electromagnetics pp Cite as. Hopefully, by now you have a good understanding of waves propagating in space and in materials, including reflection and transmission at interfaces. Although not mentioned often enough, there were a number of assumptions implicit in this type of propagation. The most important was the fact that only plane waves were treated.

One of the most popular pastimes in the DIY audio world is building loudspeaker systems. A web search will reveal literally thousands of different designs, a great many of which are at least superficially quite similar. We can be fairly certain that some of the published designs will sound very good, and others awful. This is reflected in commercial offerings as well. There aren't many 'real' audio brands that will be truly awful, but there will be differences.

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