Patent ID: 7743878

Claim:
In a folded horn loudspeaker for vertical or horizontal placement, an enclosure comprising: an assembly of baffles defining a back chamber and a unitary horn pathway comprising two directional changes, said back chamber adapted and arranged to house at least one driver, said each driver being mounted to face rearwardly, said back chamber adapted with at least one throat opening cooperating with said each driver to transmit sound waves to said pathway, said pathway further comprising an outwardly disposed baffle arranged vertically and in a basal angle to cooperate in proximate relation with a corner formed by two walls and a floor or ceiling, said baffle further providing a full channel reflective surface, said pathway having at least two different flare rates and begins at the rear of said enclosure and proceeds perpendicular to a central axis of said enclosure, said pathway further progressing along a side of said back chamber and exhausts frontwardly on one side of a front baffle.