David Looser wrote:
"Scott Dorsey" wrote in message
David Looser wrote:

When stereo came in, corner horns went away.

It wasn't a horn, it was a bass-reflex.

There's a lot less benefit in putting a bass-reflex design in a corner,
but you do still get that edge effect and the matter of consistency.

I don't buy this "consistency" notion. There are still far too many
diferences: room size, furnishings and building construction. And that's
before we think about differences in the speakers themselves: driver types
and sizes, materials used, construction techniques etc.

Yup, that's true, but the number one thing that determines the low end
response (outside of the loudspeaker itself) is the boundary effect.
The corner horn controls that.

Now, things like standing waves in the room are still very, very significant
and corner placement doesn't do anything to reduce that; if anything it can
actually make some modes worse.
--scott

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