Is the most efficient speaker the best speaker?

06-26-11: Weseixas
Hello AL,
No your calculations are off the distance increase is 4M making the reduction 24 DB for a total of 76..

If 6db is lost going from 1 meter to 2 meters (and I have no particular knowledge of whether or not that is true for any particular horn design, but I'm making that assumption, as I indicated in my initial post above), then it seems to me that another 6db would be lost going from 2 meters to 4 meters (not 2 meters to 3 meters). And then another 1.94db, according to my calculations, going from 4 meters to 5 meters, for a total loss of 6 + 6 + approx. 2 = 14db.

I can't see how the loss can be 6db per meter for each of the additional 4 meters. That makes no sense to me. The loss is due mainly to the wave "spreading out," not to the attenuation of the air.

Best regards,
-- Al

AL,

Yes 15 db down not 24 , my apologies guys .....

After the correction the linesouce in the eg would not give anything up to the SET setup and will still have more dynamics..97/99

Regards,

Lots of wrong info enjoy it.

JohnK,

I would love to hear your informed opinion. I`m no speaker designer nor an engineer, but I just don`t believe weseixas`s numbers are accurate in the horn/planar comparison. At least they don`t match what I have heard in my experiences concerning sound pressure(not comparing sound quality issues).