Horn Speakers and Sub Woofers


How difficult is it to mate conventional subwoofers with horn speakers, in particular Klipschorns.  I'm moving my 1987 Khorns to the large living room for a 'home theater' setup.  (I have two good corners for the Khorns).  I am thinking of adding one or two medium sized Rel subs to the setup to use for movies.  Have you tried subs with Horns or corner horns?

stickman451

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A horn stops acting like a horn where the size of the mouth of the horn is 1/4 wavelength.  That's why the Klipschorn is in the room corner.  It uses your room corner as part of the horn.  What I don't know is given the flare rate of an exponential curve, just how big a mouth that effectively is. 

One of the other posters here suggested the 7 foot Klipsch theatre sub-woofer.  A 7 foot wide mouth is a quarter wavelength for a 35 hz tone, so it only acts as a horn down to 35 hz.

I suggest you just be happy with your K-horns as is and forget the subs.