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Single driver speakers - opinions

1.Design - what is IYO the best design and why?
2.Sound - How would you describe the sound in comparison to other speaker designs?
3.Amplification - what works and what doesn't?
4.Is the WAF stopping your from moving in that direction?
What do you like or dislike about SD spks?
DIY v.s Commercial designs - Pros and Cons.

Feel free to express yourself and your thoughts about the Single Driver design speakers in this thread.

Ideas, your projects, pics, experiances are all fun and welcome.

From my experiance with at least two SD commercial design that actually worked like a charm, I have to say that I am seriously concidering it as my next DIY project.

Awesome speakers when done right.

Cheers
Mariusz
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t_bone
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Thanks Gents (Mariusz & Pauly),
The last two octaves are important to me because I think they're important to the music.

Mariusz, couldn't the spiral simply be a matter of switching the "hole" to the side (covering the front), and switching the stacked ladder (which is seen in the back corners of the top and the bottom) so that it guided the wave out that side rather than the front?
t_bone
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Jeff (Cardersound),
The Frugal Horn website shows a modelled frequency response curve for the Sachiko, on which the Madison is based I believe. The curve has some mean dips in the lower mid-range area. Can you tell me to what these are due? Are they artifacts of modelling? Do they show up in real life?
t_bone
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Pauly, I am intrigued so am thinking of how to make some myself. I expect I could get some relief from the LHS of the graph through room/floor/ceiling reinforcement (and if one could spiral the top horn so it went out the side, I would could improve the bass even more.

With your comparison to the Meadowlarks, are you suggesting that the Madison bass compares favorably? or that you can tell the difference...

My original question was actually referring to the dips from 200Hz up to 1000Hz, where immediate-space room reinforcement probably plays less of a role (but reflections play more of a role).
t_bone
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Apologies Jeff and thanks for your answer, I had read on other threads that the Madison was based on the Sachiko, and I remember a post several months ago by yourself saying that your then newly formed company was building speaker cabinets from the Spawn family plans on the Frugal Horn website. I was not aware that Madison had different internals than the Sachiko. I commend you for your commercial attitude towards the designers back then and admire that you have developed the internals of your boxes further.

Thanks for the comments. I thought the dips on the Spawn family plans website were perhaps spurious. That makes me feel quite a bit better.
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