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[Tim McCulloch]

Dave,

The Anicom "Futz" was the same size, but just a sealed box with a triangular hole in front, three 15" around the triangle, one in the back of the hole that would blow up first. The "Futz" made the "Warp 2" seem way efficient by comparison. They did use a lot of fiberglass on those dogs..

Around a decade later in the same city, I designed a prototype and had sixteen "F3" three-way 30" x 30" x 45"  full-range boxes built for Southern Thunder Sound. Seemed like a good idea at the time...

Path-length difference between the 18" folded horn bass and stubby conical 10" mid horns made for a "woolly" low mid sound, center to center distance between the 10" made the upper mid "smeared" other than on axis, and the 1" top struggled a bit at the mid crossover range. They could be flown horizontally or vertically, the array sucked in either direction. 4800 pounds of barking crap.

The F3 system was the biggest "dog" I ever built, but we worked them a lot before finally cutting off the "top" portion and using the 18" folded horn by itself, recycling the 10" and HF section into another "tried and true" design. Finally laid those dogs to rest..

Art

So you're saying not all our babies are pretty?

[Dave Pluke]

4800 pounds of barking crap.

You do have a way with words, Art  !

Dave

[Callan Browne]

My grey eon 315's were great for 2 reasons. They didn't cost much to buy and I could carry one in each hand for quick load in/out.
So in summary they were better when turned off.

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[Art Welter]

So you're saying not all our babies are pretty?

They are all pretty, just some are pretty ugly!

[Don T. Williams]

This was the 60's (yea, I've been doing this a while), but several manufacturers used the 30 watt EV or similar reentrant outdoor paging horn in a textured black painted particle board cabinet with a simple "horn loaded" 15".  The 15 set totally in the straight wall "horn" mouth that was maybe 6" in length, so there was little if any horn loading.  The cabs were heavy, the edges crumbled with impact, and the entire cabinet self-destructed if they got wet.  Did I mention the outdoor paging horn?  You know the sound!

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