The project is made by me (Dj DNA) using the Dynacord F18-PWH as a starting point.
It is a practicaly experimented project compared head to head with the original.
There is no need for the horns to acoustically couple for them to go lower in frequency.
Dynacord designed this type of horn, but in my opinion they made a little mistake.
Putting the resonator inside the horn , limmits part of the bass produced by it because of the the physical limitations and the geometry of the horn.
I have experimented this model making several alterations.
I compared an original F18PWH loaded with the original driver EVX180 to this one.
Atrough it is smaller , my design sounds better and has a lower F3.
The only difference in a bad way compared to the original can be felt beyond 50-60 meters in front of it. The original projects the sound a bit more because of the longer horn path.
Anyway, the enhanced projection exists only in the 80-160Hz frequency spectrum.
I was not interested in a huge box because F18PWH is verry dificult to carry. Many people involved in Show Business had complained that it was horrible to make a national tour using 24x F18-PWH and 16x F12-CWH. You had to have a minimal crew of 4 people just to put up / take down the system, and the space occupied in the trucks is trully enormous.
And there is another problem.
Everybody knows that F18PWH (the original ) sonds preety BAD if not properly processed , Dynacord specifically points out this fact.
Why is this happening ?
By studiyng the graphic, we can see that F18PWH is verry noisy between 65 and 150Hz (more than 100dB) but behaves just like a bassreflex below 50Hz( 97dB at 50Hz - measured at 1W )
This phenomenon is happening because the resonator is trying to reproduce bass frequency in a horn with a mouth to smll to sustain the wavelenghts involved.
Documentation :
http://www.dynacord.de/pdf/58_9_download.pdfhttp://www.kaufein.ch/images/products/5746.jpeghttp://www.dynacord.de/pdf/58_4_download.pdfThis type of sub has a great advantage:
It produces a powerfull bass in a reasonably sized volume. Projects the sound at great distance, but sounds OK up close too. Is is usable for live outdoor concerts, but also for indoor discos.