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baby Belle - toy or semi-useful ?


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I'm using these two files for my Belle cut sheet.  Then the free software from www.maxcutsoftware.com for how it's laid out on the 4x8 for optimum cuts.  The K510 pdf is from another member who did 1" side panels on the bass bin and re-calculated for the sizing.  Neither are my own personal files and I take no credit for them....only appreciation.  

 

 

Belle_LATEST (1).pdf

Belle K510.pdf

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hi JWC - -FWIW, here's what I get for that Delta-12LFC in an 0.83 scale Belle

 

hi avguytx - thank you very much for the plan - with one brace per mouth and its "ramps", 5/8" Baltic birch would be very stiff, strong, and light - probably only weigh around 55lb unloaded.

 

for a compact system - how about a ppsl 6th order sub to reach the baby Belle?

 

are there any midhorn drivers which don;'t cost much besides the Selenium 250X? - are there

any cone horn drivers which would keep up?   20 some years ago I had the already old JBL alnico

LE5 on Dr. Edgar's 250 tractrix - those were on top of my K-horns as thieves had got the tops and a ton of

other stuff.    My house at the time was right across from the county jail - lol

 

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My perspective is that for time, trouble and cost, you could buy a decent pair of Cornwall IIs and have a better result. A folded horn that small is really a lower midrange and as noted needs a sub. 

I seem to recall that years ago someone on this forum made a set of "truley " baby Belles as computer speakers. There were about 1 cubic foot.

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I have FH1 and prefer my little Karlson K12 - - - a sub would be added to the baby Belle - - finding an inexpensive but good midrange driver and horn might also be a problem. John Inlow developed a good 135Hz horn - whether a common little powered direct radiator subwoofer would sound good with these higher cutoff "midbass" horns = ?  Here's something interesting - drum tuning frequencies.  http://tune-bot.com/tuning-guide.html

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what might I use for a cheap- functional midhorn which isn't deeper with driver than the cabinet?  (`15 inches) I've got K700 and K601 horns - don't know how 601's phase plug chamber would behave as a throat chamber when driven with a "normal" compression driver.  

 

This scaled Belle was built for me by Triticum Audio (Jesse Brunner)

What will a K601's plug chamber which would become a throat chamber do if bolted up to a 1" phenolic like PRV/Selenium? - could attempt to saw that part off but would be messy

is there anything cheap you'd recommend?  My Paragon horn is deeper than the cabinet (which would be ok if playing outdoors)

I might run the little Belle with a 12pe32

 

Throat
https://i.imgur.com/UwW0Aqt.jpg


Back chamber views
https://i.imgur.com/6bBkBt1.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/hSwEavW.jpg

 

tight back chamber with foam blocks
- that flattens the passband on the low end
and keeps unneeded excursion below cutoff to
a minimum.  There was enough chamber volume to 
vent, which would have extended the low end.

https://i.imgur.com/d7scTkh.jpg

Size compared to Lp album
https://i.imgur.com/ZSqhMm8.jpg

Angle view
https://i.imgur.com/3RPeUAn.jpg

1 inch Paragon horn (its deeper than the cabinet)
https://i.imgur.com/tSP74rx.jpg

Front view with K601 on top
https://i.imgur.com/ezEL6uO.jpg

Depth of K601 sans driver compared to Baby Belle
https://i.imgur.com/XFVF876.jpg

K701 on top
https://i.imgur.com/ot50uoT.jpg

K701 Depth
vl5JnNk.jpg

Access panel
https://i.imgur.com/UE4k4eh.jpg

 

 

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