Seawave Acoustic AM23. Heard this large monitor at Axpona and was impressed. Might be the best sounding monitor I have heard.
Horns with good timbre and tonality?
I’m looking into buying a pair of horns for my next speaker. I sold my Sonus Faber Elipsa SE. Looking for a more realistic, more lively sound. I’ve heard the Triangle Magellan and enjoyed the sound, but wonder if there is better.
I appreciate speed and dynamics with good timbre and tonality. I know horns are good with speed and dynamics, but not sure if they can do timbre and tonality like SF can.
Looking at German Blumenhofer FS1 / FS2, French Triangle magellan, Fleetwood deville, Avantgarde.
It will be paired with Mastersound 845 Evolution SET or Auris Fortissimo amp.
Room size 40 x 15 x 8 feet
Must realistically play Solo Piano, Cello and full scale symphony.
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1st, know the Horn's Angle of Dispersion Some horns are designed for wide horizontal dispersion, say big room, stadiums, and many horn speakers orient the horns that way, not best for home listening which wants narrow dispertion for tight imaging, minimizing early side wall reflections. It's not just horizontal or vertical orientation, it also involves the horn's specific mouth design. Others are specifically designed to produce narrow dispersion, like this Electro-voice T350, designed for their vintage home speaker systems https://products.electrovoice.com/binary/T350%20EDS.pdf Vertical and Horizontal Polar dispersion graphs showing volume fall off in db used to be standard for vintage drivers https://www.ravepubs.com/a-deeper-dive-into-loudspeaker-directivity/ tight width and tight height dispersion also minimizes early floor and ceiling reflections. tilting vintage home horn drivers is important, aiming tweeters at seated ear level, and toe-in so the horns face the listener, to work properly with the designed polar output. The big Klipsch horns, the horn is horizontal, and is designed to disperse the horn's dispersion at 45 degrees into the space, away from the side walls, tight height output, into a LARGE space. Many horn designs today orient the horns for too wide distribution, weakening imaging, producing early and too strong side wall reflections. So, ascertain the horn's dispersion before moving on to other factors, listen for tight imaging, lack of early reflections.
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JBL 4367. these speakers are amazing and sounded much better all around, more refined than Kliipsch Cornwalls. They fill a good size room, have a huge soundstage, great clarity & bass output along with sounding like the sound is coming all from one place instead of 2 different sources (woofer and horn). |
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