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I did some looking yesterday and saw mention of 500 ms due to all the filtering. Sounds excessive to me but if true, you're SOL on that front alone, nevermind the hookups.

Can't answer you "main question" but have one of my own. Any idea on the cost, if available, of the NC400s?

I'll put dibs on the Hypex stuff. How much for the pair of NC400s?

That's a separate issue, though no less important than the topic (evidently) under discussion.

I can't think of a single item I've ever bought for personal use where resale was even one iota of consideration. I figure I'm just going to run whatever it is into the ground.

I'm a fan of the design. I entered this thread being goaded into it by what I'd felt was sub-optimal information regarding the term "bifurcation." That aside, any time you've got two pathways for the same information there are going to be consequences somewhere somehow.

Thank you. I'm thinking that directly on-axis of the horn (LaScala in mind), within construction tolerance limits, little to no lobing would appear. However, for any wavelength which is great enough for continued expansion beyond the point of the doghouse there will be interference patterns developing. Just saying...

It's really immaterial since your ear (or a microphone, etc.) tracks the cyclic pressure differentials that impinge upon it and once a fully-grown wave (the point at which it starts beaming) exceeds the size of the "receiving element", the receiver will never know or care. Unless the wave disperses enough to cause multiple receptions (via reflections) of any given wave, which can cause cancellation/augmentation depending on the time differences, among other sonic anomalies.

Didn't miss it at all because it wasn't addressed in the post I'd replied to, and didn't have the time or desire to peck it out on the phone "keyboard". Do you suppose lobing of no kind takes place merely because two pathways are recombined at the mouth as opposed to somewhere (well or little) outside it?

I agree that DA could have an affect on the sound, but feel that it would unlikely be encountered here. It's my understanding that it largely sets in because of constant DC loading (like power supply filters). Whatever it is that causes DA (again, in my understanding - and I'm not claiming great depth in this matter) doesn't work so one-sidedly when the cap is exposed only to AC signals. If anyone knows anything about it, by all means chime in.

Any additional baffle can't hurt, too; right?

How much weight are you hanging from those bar joists, and did you load the top or bottom chord?

You can't get the bass and treble adjustments to work, or are you just saying it would be nice to have knobs for them?

Once the split is made it doesn't matter whether there remains two final openings or just one. The pathway through which the produced sound travels has been bifurcated.

What kind of latency are you talking about (milliseconds)?

Kind of too bad... The right speaker needs to be about where that left one is, and the left one similarly located on the other side of the hearth. The way you've got it in the photo you'd be better off with a single corner horn in mono, in my (truly) friendly opinion.

I'm curious what was being searched for which caused it to even be noticed...

A prop (100# or less) or photoshop (0# or less) would be my guess. It wouldn't even fit through the door, so they ain't comin' out with it, and it wouldn't even fit through the door, so they ain't bringin' it in.

easier for the front wave to go around the box to cancel out. What? The low frequency waves are feet long, not inches, and the continuous surfaces aid in their development. Jumping across open gaps does the opposite.

The character of the bass will change, but not nearly for the worse as with open stands. Get an 8' or 10' (whatever's appropriate) 1x6 and some 1-3/4 coarse-thread drywall screws. It'll only take a few minutes to whip up a pair to try.

Keep posting that photo and some folks are going to start to think raising floor-standers, especially with a void under them, is a good idea, though I won't be one of them. At least skirt those stands so all four sides of the cabinet can acoustically couple to the floor, please. It's painful to look at knowing what it does to the lower registers.

Yes, and further expense down the road to repair the structural damage.

Still have the labels? They'll denote whether they left the factory with veneer or whatever.

You are, and you'll succeed!

Was there a bunch of mud on them? No? Then they were clean!