Mac Kerr wrote on Mon, 03 January 2011 14:03 |
Kasey Linsberg wrote on Mon, 03 January 2011 15:55 | I know this is a bit of an older post, but I was wondering if you had an thoughts on how these might sound with two per side? It looks as though it would make a fairly nice scalable system.
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Since column speakers have very wide horizontal coverage they would not work very well side by side. stacking 1 on top of the other would work better, but involve a lot of safety structure. This is not a scalable solution.
Here is the same thing from the late '70s.
Mac
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Column speakers have the same horizontal dispersion as the speakers they use, the issues of running them side by side are the same as any front loaded cabinet.
Although I'm not a fan of side by side front loaded cones, being scalable is a matter of opinion, it never stopped Clair Brothers putting their 4x 10" (and 2x18, 2 x2" and 2tweets) S4 cabinets 4, 8 and more wide..
The Ramsdell is using a frequency shaded crossover and a horn which (probably) matches the top 10" dispersion.
The old JBL did not have those features, it used musical instrument 10" and bullet tweeters splayed side by side.
The Ramsdell looks to be a good update on an old idea.