Klipschhorn
The Klipschhorn (also known as the Klipschorn with only one h, khorn or Klipsch-Eckhorn ) is a horn construction developed by Paul Klipsch in 1941 as a 3-way loudspeaker . The bass horn is folded into a corner case with an edge length of 90 cm and a height of 100 cm with a length of approx. 1.8 m.
A midrange and tweeter are located above the corner housing, which are also designed as horn speakers to adjust the sound pressure.
The Klipschhorn has two main design features:
- The loudspeaker is acoustically loaded on both sides. The front of the membrane radiates into the horn construction, the rear of the membrane into a chamber which is isolated from the horn construction and the room air.
Non-linear distortions due to different radiation resistances are reduced. - Due to the corner installation, the room walls are used to increase the effective horn length, lower tones can be emitted (lower limit frequency ).
At the same time, the mouth cross-section of the horn is enlarged, level jumps when the sound passes from the mouth opening into the free space are also reduced.
Smaller sister models are Belle Klipsch and La Scala. The original Klipschorn is still in production. An anniversary version was presented for the 60th anniversary.
literature
- R. Beckmann: Manual of PA technology, basic component practice. 2nd edition, Elektor-Verlag, Aachen, 1990, ISBN 3-921608-66-X
- Michael Ebner: Manual of PA technology. 1st edition, Elektor-Verlag, Aachen, 2002, ISBN 3-89576-114-1