Are they one of the Scott Hinson designs?
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I’ve heard mixed reviews of some Hypex offerings.
The newer 3 in one 250+250+100W or bigger 500+500+100W amps could be an improvement.
For budding and existing MEH / Synergy hornists here…
I recently re-read this thread to be found on another forum from 2012.
What’s interesting is the response by Tom Danley himself.
Very long detailed explanation - the kind of detail engineers like😉
Things on the checklist
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For Hifi use voice the thing at -1dB / octave across the increasing frequency (tick)
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Perform setup measurements outside and high off the ground.
Thus only the speaker is measured not the room interaction.
(Not ticked).
Not practical for me at the moment, although I am planning to build a pair of 60 degree horns, reusing the existing rear enclosures for laziness.
Could have them outside for a measure at that point.
Instead I used sound absorbing panels on either side of and above the horns to reduce room interference. -
For narrow long rooms the SH50 provides reduced room reflection interference - align the taper of the trapezoidal cab side to the side wall (tick).
This is interesting as I was doing this and then tried them even more toed in to see - resulting in loss of central imaging and higher frequency distortions that are not there if aligned as above. -
For me, whilst the BMS 4550 HF compression driver fits nicely with the Synergy Freq Resp, SPL robustness, serviceability etc requirements, and it gives pretty good SQ (once I set it up properly
), ultimately it lacks the refinement I like.
Nearfield listening is different to large PA venues.
I’m having to be patient and wait until February next year (ZZZzzzz) for the Peerless by Tymphany DFM-2535R00-08 driver group buy I’m in on to try something different that looks to fit the bill and doesn’t break the bank.
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Funny, I just came across this video in my own YouTube feed completely by accident.
I’m fascinated by these units
That’s very pretty who’s that?
From the front the MEH probably has rear ports.
I would need speaker covers for the face up
I mean, that’s the same one with the bass bin rotated 90 degrees isn’t it?
Bingo
Nice, and interesting!
I don’t get why you would have rear bass ports, unless what’s coming out then is guaranteed lower than 100Hz - which it can’t be, can it?
Would mess up the lovely flat phase to 100Hz, or lower, possibilty the MEH can have in full Synergy mode.
I’ve not heard a ported bass MEH so can only speculate.
Horses for courses…
Here’s a couple of pics from their Insta
Big MEH or those bass ports are well forward and bigger than the bass taps…
Possibly the internals to the above
Nothing quite like fresh drivers🙂
Very Danley SH50 inspired.
Even uses the same BMS4550 comp driver and that same Celestion 5" closed back mids that I used.
This will have a full rear enclosure and have the potential to be a full Synergy MEH - depending on their XO techniques.
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The “ultimate” is rear ported and the JMOD ports out the front in the horn. So some clearly don’t mind it
Yeah, I guess they haven’t heard the difference, or there are other priorities at work- build complexity, size, weight etc.
There are some MEH builders using 2nd or 4th order crossovers too.
What you’ve never heard can’t enlighten you🙂
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Well the hoarding on parts has started:
Will be a few months before I am ready to start building but I’m going down the JMOD 1.2b route for my first attempt
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Ooh👍, unboxing vid please🙂
Nice!
Should kick…
From Blue Aran, Lean Audio, or?