Greetings Good Folks;
I have been looking into the design of a Jubilee Klone based on the JAES Oct. 2000 document that was so kindly posted on these forums. I am not so well versed in the deeper aspects of theoretical design, in fact, I feel pretty good getting this far. I have looked at the fine work by Neandertal and others and I can understand a good bit of the Graphic parts of it, but I am a little baffled (excuse the pun) by some of the dimensions. Not that I think that they are wrong, but how they were derived, other than the stated tracing of a scaled drawing.
I looked at the JAES document and saw a statement that said the height of the horn would need to be only 0.482m (or 1-7) in height. They then went on to talk about desired height for proper listening and stated that two drivers would be required.
So far I am with you. The paper starts to define horn area at four points along the centerline of the horn. I can understand length and area. At the first point line length 0.0, the area is stated to be 0.029 sq.m. or 44.950 sq. in. After this I start to get a little foggy. The next point along the center line is 0.209m at 0.069sq, m. (106.95 sq. in.) Great, that I understand. Now, at point C the length is 0.741m with an area of 0.075 sq.m. (116.25 sq. in).
The problem that I am having is I do not know if the third point is measured from the origin or the previous point? The same goes for the last point. I am sure that there is some clue or standard practice that I am missing on that one.
Not being one to let common sense stand in my way, I have wasted several lunch hours at work trying to come up with a modified idea on the Jubilee theme. There should be some .pdf files posted with this text. The design stays as close as I could come to the original design, but with the idea that it would be for only one driver. My main concern was moving them up stairs to sit beside the TV. Think of two of these units for each side. I am working on a way to have them attach in an acceptable way with the upper horns and crossovers in a third box. I have not gotten that far yet. Also, I have not tried to build this design yet either I kind of wanted comments good or bad, because this will be my first speaker project since the old Speaker Lab units I built in college.
Thanks for your thoughts.
1BB
J_Box_Dwg_p1.pdf