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Conference Paper

Horn Loudspeakers for Live Sound

Authors: Holland, Keith

AES Conference: UK 18th Conference: Live Sound · Paper 9 · April 2003

Abstract

Loudspeaker horns have two major useful properties. They act as acoustic transformers, amplifying sources of sound, and they create boundaries for controlling the direction of propagation of sound. Traditionally, horn design has concentrated on exploiting either the former property, where high efficiency and / or high sound quality are required, or the latter, where directivity control is important. Modem live sound loudspeaker systems have to combine both high sound quality and reasonable directivity control without serious compromise of either. A number of novel and not so novel designs can fulfil this requirement.

Details

Published in
AES Conference: UK 18th Conference: Live Sound
Paper number
9
Publication date
April 6, 2003
Session subject
Live Sound
Affiliation
Institute of Sound and Vibration Research, University of Southampton, UK (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Conference Paper