Frugal Horn Mk3

[Toppsy]

Thought I'd post up a couple pictures of my latest build.

These are the Planet10 http://www.planet10-hifi.com/ offering of the Frugal Horn Mk3 designed by Scott Lindgren (Scottmoose of Woden Designs http://www.wodendesign.com/

The design is featured here http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/full-...ta-builds.html should anyone be interested.

The speakers have been designed to be quite flexible regards different 3" and 4" FR drivers. The ones I've build feature the Mark Audio paper coned CHP70 drivers.

For those wanting a small floorstander with bags of WAF that also sound stonkingly good I can highly recommend these.

[Richard]

Beautiful job there Colin

[Edwin]

Hear! Hear!

[BOONDI]

You have some amazing woodwork there Colin......

Deeply impresed.....

[Toppsy]

Thanks for the compliments guys, much appreciated.

I have made a slight cosmetic change to the speakers. I have added some outrigger style spiked feet. 1) To improove stability - these speakers are only 7" wide. and 2) To replace the wooden blocks that they were supported on.

I have a suspended timber floor with heavy woollen carpet that can cause booming to floorstanding speakers. These being rear ported with the horn exit being low to the floor benefit with raising them on spikes. This had had the desired effect.

[Edwin]

Toppsy

I see from your photos that the speakers are placed well away from the wall - at least 12". On the FrugelHorn website, they show an alternative of having the speaker in a corner backing onto a wedge-shaped diffuser (which also positions it away from the walls). That arrangement would depend on how far apart the corners were and would probably be suitable only for fairly small rooms, I imagine. Is this a "problem" with all folded horn speakers - that the placing of them may be difficult. In your room, the chimney breast provides a good solution.