does anyone have guide to speaker horn shape characteristics? my google searches bring nothing useful. I'm really needing some kind of guide to what I can expect from different kinds of horns, like pic. I'm looking speaker horns for PA, and other such things requiring more than a silk dome tweeter.
you find a few tweeters you like, and download data sheets.
what more information do you need?
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Anonymous2008-05-13 19:17
no, I'm asking about the horns that attach to a standard 1'' horn driver (like a phenolic driver) through either a 2 or bolt connection or 1 3/8 screw. you know, the large horns. The drivers (the tweeters) do not determine the dispersion characteristics, but rather the actual shape of the horn that is attached to the driver. Most horns (not the drivers I emphasize) do not have a data sheet only general angle dispersion and nothing more specific than a ratio such as 100/50 (horizontal and vertical dispersion angles) that don't tell me anything about how the horn will 'throw' the sounds; meaning that I need to know the throw distance, if it will quickly drop off after 10 feet, or if is an actual exponential dispersion horn.
what I'm looking for is a walk through, whatever, that will explain how the different shapes of horns will affect the dispersion and throw of the driver.