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| What does one purchase after owning horns? In three weeks the Lone Star Audio Fest is happening in Dallas, Texas. Here's a link:http://lonestaraudiofest.com/What this has to do with horns is, historically a disproportionate number of rooms at LSAF exhibit horn designs. We also have direct ... | |
| New Salk Loudspeaker- Soundscape JR "...for Jeffs passive radiator system is the only one that distributes bass evenly."Could you elaborate?Thanks,Duke dealer/manufacturer/thinks highly of Salk speakers | |
| Likely culprit for harshness at higher volumes? It's possible that your speakers have a distortion which is present but below the detection threashold at lower levels, and then as you go up to high levels, the distortion becomes louder than the decection threshold. In other words, your ears may... | |
| What does one purchase after owning horns? "Seriously, I've GOT to hear some horns, just to revisit...Duke, if you ever want to have a Beta Test Site...send me a pair...I'll write a Harry Pearson quality, prosaic piece and be honest to a fault."Thanks for your offer, Larry. Shipping costs ... | |
| NSMT Speakers? "We make the best loudspeakers". Says so right there on the page.The Chorus has a sensitivity of 96 dB, bass extension to 35 Hz, and an internal volume of about 1/2 cubic feet. The gap between a truly high-end company like NSMT, who makes the best... | |
| What does one purchase after owning horns? "Duke's speaker is not an Horn .... Waveguide !!!!!!!"A waveguide is a type of horn, characterized by constant directivity, minimum-wavefront-disturbance curvatures, and a lack of vanes or diffractive shapes or features to modify directivity. Some... | |
| small companies making today's best products I have learned that getting involved in custom work is a good way to waste a lot of time. No one who has come to me with their own custom design in mind has ever gone through with placing an order after many hours of research and modelling and rev... | |
| What does one purchase after owning horns? Macrojack, this is a cat that can be skinned more than one way. At first glance, it looks like a crossover of 350 Hz between a fairly narrow-pattern horn and a direct-radiator woofer would not have a good radiation pattern matchup, and I think is ... | |
| What does one purchase after owning horns? "Two complaints have always been...'horn coloration', which I 'claim' to be able to hear that, (to me) characteristic 'horn sound'. That and the 'lack of dynamic' consistency between the horn and the bass 'drivers'."There's this discontinuity that... | |
| small companies making today's best products I'd like to comment on one thing Elizabeth said:"[C]learly the small company is a risk for a 'small pockets' buyer. If one is spending money they cannot afford to just burn, then it behooves them to buy a product they can depend on."Now I can't sp... | |
| Endless debate: monitor + sub vs floorstanding Generalizing here...I'd take two fullrange speakers over two monitors + one sub. If it's two monitors + two subs vs two fullrange... well it's close, but probably the two + two. And I'd take two monitors + fours subs over the two fullrange speaker... | |
| small companies making today's best products Mrtennis, thanks for taking note of the sound quality of (at least some) small companies. We trade off economies of scale for the economy of direct marketing, and hope that we can build a better-enough mousetrap to generate some word-of-mouth to m... | |
| What does one purchase after owning horns? Ime THD does not correlate well with subjective preference. Imo THD is not the right yardstick to be measuring with; a horn or amp or whatever can have excellent THD numbers and still sound pretty bad, or have bad THD numbers and still sound excel... | |
| Best of luck to Brian Kyle of Xtreme Cables Thanks for letting us know, Brainwater. Brian, may your kindness and intensity and enthusiasm and passion and room-filling warmth come back to you now, and lend its strength to you in your fight. You have always greeted me like I was your long-los... | |
| What does one purchase after owning horns? Mapman wrote: "The primary benefit of horns is efficiency."No doubt I'm in the minority here, but my primary reason for using horns (waveguides being a type of horn) is radiation pattern control. |