Change to Horns or stay Dynamic

"Bear in mind mastering engineers compress the crap out of what you mostly can buy in recorded music - so you won't always achieve realism except on recordings where dynamics have been deliberately preserved"

Excellent point, very well said and perhaps a topic deserving it's own discussion under the heading "atrocities sound engineers commit during post mastering" although I have a feeling it's been discussed before.

"The Jazz module is similar in design to the Summa. It has recently received a golden ear award from TAS"

The TAS GEA was given to Duke's Dream Maker.

Kana,

Oops! Guess you're right.

Although this is the case it should also be known that the Dream Maker uses the same drivers arranged back and front in a bi-pole configuration, so it's sonic signature should be close to that of the monopole.

This loudspeaker also uses pro-drivers made by TAD and Beyma. See a trend here?

Sadly - the use of pro drivers is all but ignored - however a nice shiny aluminium driver with stunning shiny copper phase plug => that will catch the eye everytime and have audiophiles reaching for their credit card everytime - especially when the listener is reminded about how fast these small lightweight woofers are and how plodding the old dumb sound reinforcement dated big woofers of the 70's JBL crowd are....

Furthermore a big ugly black paper Volt woofer with massive 3 inch voice coil and a massive frontal ribbed heat sink which is also ugly black to help dissipate heat and reduce thermal compression and as used on PMC speakers...no that is butt ugly and so out of place among those tall slender veneered beauties...forget it...most dealers won't even carry this kind of monster!

As Jaybo puts is so well - some audiophiles hear what they see!

I done horns, planners and dynamic speakers - some a couple of times. It was fun, painful and rewarding. Each time I settled on a speaker type I had changed out other components to better match that speaker type. So figure that in too, because it will happen. Now i got off that merry-go-round and picked dynamics, third time, for better all around performance (IMHO). You may decide something else. My only advice is get the dealer support you deserve. Insist on it.

How many responses on these thread where from dealers? Bet there are a few and that's good. Why not sept up to providing a home demo, free or not, of some of these expensive horns? This might be difficult to arrange, but once you narrowed down your preferred horns to three. Find dealers that will do that home demo.