Subsonic1050's Line Force Build

subsonic1050

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Re: Subsonic1050's Line Force Build
« Reply #20 on: 16 Jun 2026, 08:05 pm »
It isn't the tweeter. It is how it is mounted. You have have some throat style cancellation on the front or back side.

Also, as soon as you make a full line of those drivers it will change everything. As frequency decreases you will get coupling that will cause a lot of output gain. However, as frequency decreases the wavelengths start to beam and coupling goes away. By 20kHz you have no more output than if you were using just one driver.

This is tremendously valuable Danny, thanks so much for chiming in. The drivers are flush mounted on the front baffle - I did mount various waveguides in front of them, but I also measured it with no waveguide at all - just flush mounted. That notch was still there, basically unchanged with the waveguide present. However, I do have a small amount of webbing connecting the tweeters on the backside. Similar to how Jaytor's are now - the new design CaptainHemo milled up. I do have the edges rounded over on the back, but it's a small roundover because there isn't a lot of material there. Are you saying that you expect the nature of that notch to change when the full array is present?

Danny Richie

Re: Subsonic1050's Line Force Build
« Reply #21 on: 19 Jun 2026, 03:39 pm »
This is tremendously valuable Danny, thanks so much for chiming in. The drivers are flush mounted on the front baffle - I did mount various waveguides in front of them, but I also measured it with no waveguide at all - just flush mounted. That notch was still there, basically unchanged with the waveguide present. However, I do have a small amount of webbing connecting the tweeters on the backside. Similar to how Jaytor's are now - the new design CaptainHemo milled up. I do have the edges rounded over on the back, but it's a small roundover because there isn't a lot of material there. Are you saying that you expect the nature of that notch to change when the full array is present?

The longer the line gets the more everything will change.

Something on the back side can be creating that notch though.

subsonic1050

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Re: Subsonic1050's Line Force Build
« Reply #22 on: 19 Jun 2026, 11:47 pm »
Thanks so much Danny, I'm just going to build the whole speaker and see what I'm dealing with at that point.

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Re: Subsonic1050's Line Force Build
« Reply #23 on: 28 Jun 2026, 01:45 am »
I got the first speaker glued up. I should be gluing up the second one tomorrow. Then some bondo, sanding, and paint. Then veneering the wing. At that point I will install the drivers and wire them up, then do some testing to make sure there aren’t any major issues. Last step will be to make the front baffle with the waveguides.






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Re: Subsonic1050's Line Force Build
« Reply #24 on: 28 Jun 2026, 02:26 am »
Awesome!

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Re: Subsonic1050's Line Force Build
« Reply #25 on: 28 Jun 2026, 03:05 am »
Looking good!

Danny Richie

Re: Subsonic1050's Line Force Build
« Reply #26 on: 30 Jun 2026, 12:14 pm »
Wow!