I'm looking for my next project. I had been planning on building a Cornscala, but wonder about combining a Cornwall bass bin with a Jubilee horn (510/K69). Has anyone done this? Could a passive network work well 2 way? The room is about 16' x 21' with a ceiling that varies from 7' to 11'. Stereo music only (no tv), driven by a McIntosh MC275. Thanks.

Read your title and was thinking someone bought 3 Jubilees for a full frontal assault!

As of this moment, I don't think I've heard of anyone marrying a Cornwall bass bin with a K510.  Though there is a passive for using the K510 with a LaScala bass bin, I'd suspect it would be different when used with the Cornwall...as such...I don't think it's been designed (by Roy anyway).

Using an active would allow you to tinker with it to get it right... or at least closer.

I'm here to tell you the K510 is a fine sounding horn.  Go balls to the wall....  if you're going to build....  build either a Jubilee bass bin or on a smaller scale, a LaScala bass bin and slap the K402 on top!

You would have known crossover values here as well as existing passive designs.

 

Coytee:

Using an active would allow you to tinker with it to get it right... or at least closer.

I'm here to tell you the K510 is a fine sounding horn.  Go balls to the wall....  if you're going to build....  build either a Jubilee bass bin or on a smaller scale, a LaScala bass bin and slap the K402 on top!

You would have known crossover values here as well as existing passive designs.

Coytee is right.  If you started with a Cornwall, you'd be totally guessing at all of the settings and could wind up with a response curve that looks like the Rocky Mountains.  With the Jubilee or JubScala, the crossover settings have been tested and worked out and sound right as soon as the speakers are hooked up.  Well, once you get past the RCA-to-XLR stuff, that is.

Rane has an excellent tutorial on the XLR's and the RCA's and so on, balanced, unbalanced, etc. I was in shock trying to mate up consumer and pro gear, finally decided to scuttle all the consumer stuff and go straight pro-sound and things got a little easier then. I finally got a soldering work station to deal with it...seemed like every time I wanted to do something I had to make four more new cables...RCA to Phone jack is one of my most interesting and numerous, but there are also speakons,  bare-wire to XLR,  etc. I think I only have two wires that have the same thang on both ends, excepting all the 1/4" stuff ....now I have to scrounge to find something to hook up a guitar and amplifier because all my good spectraflex instrument cables are in various states of repose behind my stereo. I use good wires for guitar....lamp cord for speaker wires...go figure...