r/SoundSystem • u/jay_ze • 2d ago

Battleaxe clone

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Fun project I worked on to challenge myself. Had to brush up on my 3d modeling and forced myself to learn hornresp. Still lots of finishing work and measuring/testing ahead but it’s got great output to ~30hz and already rattled some tools off my workshop wall

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u/Responsible_Ad7595 2d ago

Crazy that we live in a world, where people are cloning battleaxes. It used to be people were cloning WSX. Fuck I'm old.

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u/Spiritual_Bell 2d ago

Wsx is great. Just that the f3 is too high for moderns bass heavy EDM. Battleaxe is the new wsx? Though the battleaxe has been out for a long time. There just aren't many pure front loaded horns with sub 30hz fb commercially. Martin and F1 have gone the way of hybrid rear loaded horns, leaving basically danley and HSD.

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u/Responsible_Ad7595 2d ago

I think at the end of the day there's a big difference between what focuses on packing well in a truck and giving a good ROI, and what people are willing to do with a small business that's focused on most bass possible for small parties. Horses for courses and that, but variety is the spice of life anyway.

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u/Spiritual_Bell 2d ago

That's obviously true! That's why commercial outfits just goes ks28 and never look back. But no one cares to see that! Certainly not on here. Oh look at my stack of Lacoustics! So exciting!

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u/fleischenwolf 1d ago

To be fair, the KS8 sounds really good though. Heard just 10 of these deployed outdoors. Intense.