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[Riley Casey]

Is that a bug or a feature ? http://i.ebayimg.com/images/i/151608387622-0-1/s-l1000.jpg 

[Tim McCulloch]

Is that a bug or a feature ? http://i.ebayimg.com/images/i/151608387622-0-1/s-l1000.jpg 

Feature.

[Chris Hindle]

Is that a bug or a feature ? http://i.ebayimg.com/images/i/151608387622-0-1/s-l1000.jpg 

Near as i recall, you stick a 2441 or 2445 on it, as a wedge, you can use it to clear the stage.
Ungodly loud - if you so desire.
Great way to poke a hole in something with a bit of 4K 

[Jim McKeveny]

If you think you're smarter than the manufacturer, you probably aren't.

Agreed.

But the lack of transparency (Ha!) from manufacturers is of concern. A percent here, a percent there, soon we are talking about real sound and money.

As engineering-aware end users in an engineering realm should we not ask these questions?

[Riley Casey]

That particular potato masher lens was for a one inch driver ala 2421.  They were popular back in the day for use in wedges next to a 12.  Made it damned hard to have a stable vocal mix when the singer moved the mic even a few inches.  For the yonger set who may be scratching their heads muttering WTF, this is a conical exponential horn with an "acoustic lens".  This predates the entire constant directivity design and the lens was installed at the mouth of the horn to make the pattern wider than the horn would have been capable of delivering otherwise. THis is a constructive ( sort of ) use of the phenomena under discussion in the thread.

Near as i recall, you stick a 2441 or 2445 on it, as a wedge, you can use it to clear the stage.
Ungodly loud - if you so desire.
Great way to poke a hole in something with a bit of 4K 

[Jim McKeveny]

Near as i recall, you stick a 2441 or 2445 on it, as a wedge, you can use it to clear the stage.

Near as I recall it was a 1 incher.

[Jim McKeveny]

Made it damned hard to have a stable vocal mix when the singer moved the mic even a few inches.

Which supports the perf. metal/wickedly peaky thingy I OP'd.

I am guess that w/o mfr input this thread will dissolve into the anectdotal..

[Andre Vare]

I am guess that w/o mfr input this thread will dissolve into the anectdotal..

Have a look at my first post in this thread.  Nothing anecdotal.  Research by then member of Bolt, Beranek and Newmann

[Riley Casey]

Not sure the merits and demerits of perforated plate acoustic lenses designed in the 50s for home stereos to over come the short comings of short conical horns and misapplied for stage monitors twenty years later makes the thread about perforated metal speaker grilles without value.

Which supports the perf. metal/wickedly peaky thingy I OP'd.

I am guess that w/o mfr input this thread will dissolve into the anectdotal..

[Jay Barracato]

As a design factor I would SWAG that the effect differs depending on whether the grill is in the region where the driver does work on the air or when the wave is propagating which would depend on placement of the driver and frequency.

After all sound is a compressional wave not a transverse wave.

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