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What happened to the folded horn Cabs?
- Thread starter ZonieBass
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See, with that rig ^^ I'd be worried about the latency introduced when the sound has to stop and ask for directions.
Small folded horn boxes like the Sunn pictured above and the Acoustic had a few problems - they were too big to fit in a car and the mid and high response was sorely lacking because the driver(s) weren't direct radiators. All they had was mid-bass punch. A horn enclosure that can truly go low enough to play bass accurately would be GIGANTIC and they just aren't practical.You can get better low end and faster transients in a much smaller package with a vented enclosure
They only make this in the male version. Men never stop to ask for directions.
svtb15
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Back in the early70s i had an acoustic 371 cab and SVT.. Sure it was big. But so were cars... I would but the Acoustic cab in my back seat and the SVT cab in the trunk.. Then i got a 64 chevy station wagon.. .that held everything.. cars were big. Not like today.. .Also had a chevy Impala for a while think it was a 65.. That acoustic cab or the SVT would fit in the back seat..
+1. Probably the best modern choice for the folded horn, or similar designs.
Had an Acoustic 371 Rig that fit in the back seat of my two door 1974 Maverick. I could shake just about any room with that thing. Since the speaker was so well protected by the reverse mount, I never worried about puncturing it. Sadly, it was sold so I could honeymoon with that cheating, lying, no good, nuts… you all know the rest.
I had a Peavey 1 x 18" folded horn...never got used to it...it seemed that I had to get at least 10ft from it to even hear it...I used it with a Sound City 4 x 10" when I used it...eventually I gave up on the fh...big and heavy...tough to get up and down stairs...
One of my first rigs was my Acoustic 370 thru two-EV eliminator cabs-each a single 15"folded horn.They were hard to hear onstage because they projected so well,if I could hear them onstage it seemed like they were too loud in the room.Also the other reasons here-heavy,bulky,muddy,etc.Made for an impressive stack tho!
Used to run my "71 V4B into one of those 301 bottoms. Couldn't hear it in close quarters - but out in the audience, internal organs were rearranged on a regular basis.
Long throw cab - hard to monitor on-stage - get echo off back wall - nice and loud outdoors and yes - heavy when you're carrying up a couple flights of stairs!!
Only had this cab a couple of months, but it's my favorite so far. It replaced my svt-av rig. It has a twelve foot folded horn that I don't so much feel onstage, but it's being heard and felt miles away at outdoor gigs.
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alexclaber
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Wow! I have never seen a photo of the 16H in the wild! Are you sure you need that 8x5" on top as well? 
People often comment on big horn subs 'throwing' the sound a distance so you don't hear/feel it so much onstage but that's a physical impossibility - the sound is always loudest at the source. The reduced distortion common to good horn subs does make it harder to locate them and if you stand in a boundary null then you might think the sound is being 'thrown' but it isn't.
People often comment on big horn subs 'throwing' the sound a distance so you don't hear/feel it so much onstage but that's a physical impossibility - the sound is always loudest at the source. The reduced distortion common to good horn subs does make it harder to locate them and if you stand in a boundary null then you might think the sound is being 'thrown' but it isn't.
