I didn’t like horns at all, based mostly on opinions I’d heard from others. I’d never bothered to find a way to give them a good listen. Then one day years ago I was at an audio show. It was when Stereophile was still doing audio shows. The show was almost over when I walked into a large room with lots of people in it. The exhibitor, whose name was Jeff (can’t remember the last name) was standing in front of a pair of large horn speakers.
He put on a vinyl copy of Pink Floyd’s “The Wall”. He cued up “Another Brick in the Wall” and turned the volume up to lease break. I’ve never before or since heard that music sound so good. I mean, it was alive in that room. Jeff was bouncing up and down, people were playing air guitars, it was wonderful. That experience alone taught me what a great horn speaker can do. The speakers were Avantgarde.
He put on a vinyl copy of Pink Floyd’s “The Wall”. He cued up “Another Brick in the Wall” and turned the volume up to lease break. I’ve never before or since heard that music sound so good. I mean, it was alive in that room. Jeff was bouncing up and down, people were playing air guitars, it was wonderful. That experience alone taught me what a great horn speaker can do. The speakers were Avantgarde.