johnk
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| How thick should the front baffle of speakers be? You don't get doppler effects off baffle flex the baffle exists to hold transducer to support mid-bass frequency and to limit vibration levels. An over small speaker will require BSC- baffle step correction in its network to compensate if baffles ... | |
| Miracles in Audio, by luck, by good choices,by design or by tweaking... Experience and knowledge are what you need not luck. It's easy to get a synergistic sound if you have the experience and knowledge to do so. | |
| What is your favorite High EFF speaker From my experience and my preference for best in high eff is an upgraded Shearer horn design or a full custom built horn system from an expert. But these are large horns small in horns in a major compromise. | |
| Horn Speaker Recommendations Classic audio or Dukes at Audiokinesis all have good options depending on budgets. | |
| Horn Speaker Recommendations Seems many who have a horn bias have never heard a proper set. Since many of the things, they insist all horns do I never hear out of a proper setup full front loaded horn system. My horns systems disappear when on. ... | |
| Horn Speaker Recommendations 60 foot sound stage LOL sounds to me like someone has no experience with large horn systems. I sit in my office listening to a community leviathan system in nearfield low level rooms 14x17 it images wonderfully massively low in distortion interact... | |
| Horn Speaker Recommendations roxy54 never mentioned rare or costly you did. I can put something together that’s better than most audiophile horn offering for about 2000. And of coarse system end goals are what matters I want a great sounding horn good is pretty easy to find ... | |
| Horn Speaker Recommendations I’ve most likely owned more Klipsch than anyone posting about it as well as much of what’s available I even have some of Paul's RCA test equipment and 1 of his RCA W bins from Klipsch museum many may not know but K horn was inspired and based on O... | |
| Horns and 2in Drivers Sure its a common size for compression midranges | |
| Horn Speaker Recommendations The best horn systems are not the ones you find at audio dealers research horns consider a bit of DIY combinations of the best of vintage and modern are the best performing options. I wouldn't consider Klipsch unless entry-level. Avantgarde is als... | |
| Thoughts on extending speaker life. To keep my 80 -50 year old speakers working well I play them and keep them dry and out of the sun | |
| How come Horn + woofer designs are not more popular? Horns can be the last loudspeaker you would ever need to buy good ones are not obsoleted as quickly or at all like nearly all conventional dynamics and estats. They hold up well with time unlike the many others and can be easily repaired or upgra... | |
| Polyfill placement question in monitor speakers. I would install wool or acousta stuff and fully fill but loosely pack the total cabinet with it. Seems what you had has settled with time and from being removed. | |
| Can one ever be "done" in this hobby? When it becomes no fun then Iam done. | |
| Speakers under $50k that rival $200k+ speakers? Altec a5 with modern crossover and a good tweeter will be as good as $250,000 speaker systems plus they are far more fun. |