CH  Audio Design


 Multicellular Horns


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CH1505BW in Basswood and Natural Shellac. CH1505BWL full lobe multicellulars CH812BW Horns in Varnish CH808W Horns in Shellac CH805BWL in Basswood and Natural Shellac. CH803BW Horns in Varnish
 
 CH1505BW  
In natural Shellac
CH1505BWL
Full lobe
In Shellac
CH 812BWL
In Varnish
CH808W
 In Shellac
CH805BWL
Full lobe
In Shellac
CH803BW
In Varnish
     
  All horns are hand manufactured  with most dedication and care.

  Smooth sweet and articulated reproduction with "life like" space and air among instruments, resolution of detail is revealing with a vivid and transparent "concert in your room" magic quality, and captivating  "live" performance with body, weight and presence.
 
Throughout the many years of testing the reproduction of many musical instruments, to my findings, wood horns are the highest expression reproducing them, created to get the listener as closed to a live performance as possible, capturing and reproducing continuous transparent neutrality and purity of reproduction, rendering music with the inherent sweetness and impact of a live performance.

They are simply awesome!

 Their combination with a compression driver reproduces music with utterly low distortion levels,  thanks to the natural impedance coupling of diaphragm to air, resulting in a very high efficiency with very low  power required to drive the diaphragm micro-displacement, even at high sound levels.  Offering a wide sound dispersion pattern.

 All wood construction and the right amount of cork covering the back of each cell in the multicellular structure for extra damping of resonances and vibrations, yet letting the wood do it's job transferring the sound with naturalness. Resonances and vibrations tend to mud the sound by adding distortion to the reproduction, they are not acoustic musical instruments creating their own sounds, but sound reproducers resembling them.

 In an acoustic instrument the sound is produced by the natural vibration of a metal string, membrane or air column amplified and naturally changed to a pleasant sound by a wood acoustical resonator box of an acoustical right size and  shape,  by a column of air in the case of air  instruments, made of  "non acoustically aggressive"  metals such as bronze, or wood that will reproduce as good, if not better, including percussion instruments that uses membranes such as skins of animals and natural wood for their acoustical properties.

A similitude exist using an all wood speaker system, in particular a wood horn, the sound is reproduced by a metal transducer such as a diaphragm and is acoustically "signed" by the wood it it's immediate path to the media.
 The advantage of natural wood and coatings having their own nature's "signature" for the reproduction of music rendering a superbly smooth and natural low distortion reproduction with superbly clear voices  is obvious.

 Made mainly of Tilia, known as Basswood in North America, that offers the advantage among other woods of a low resonance, avoiding ringing at resonance frequencies. Light weight for ease of transportation.  

 Only natural glue and wood, no fiberglass or any other synthetic plastics are used. All natural Shellac finish.
The mounting flange is made of aircraft grade Birch plywood with stainless steel hardware to mount to the provided all wood throat adapter wave-guide with 1/4" or 5/16" stainless steel mounting bolts.

 Wood horns and especially multicellular are truly harder to manufacture than the metal counterpart, we believe is worth the extra effort, after all, how many metal violins are to be found ? Any aluminum, plastic piano or flute ?
 
Handcrafted with most care and high attention to detail !

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