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Magico S5 Speaker - SET UP ADVICE PLEASE - Tow-In - Etc.
Cables as EQ is what you are doing if the loudspeakers were of proper design the amplifier cable loudspeaker interface would be easy to optimize. But if a cable fetish is what this threads about I apologize and will let you all have at it.  
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Magico S5 Speaker - SET UP ADVICE PLEASE - Tow-In - Etc.
Toss those over priced aluminum cans that no mater how much $ you toss at them are not doing the job and buy a horn system. 
Subwoofer failings and their use-related reasons
All things fail most commercial offerings are designed for up to 10 years use. I design and work with many types of transducer including some of the largest and most powerful ones. Placing a amplifier and massive transducer in same cabinet is sub-... 
Your advice to speakers designers
Designers are already building what the market wants. Small,easy to house,sell,ship,make profits off Chinese manufactured bookshelf or tower designs all near identical to one another. Sure a few options exist outside of this but the majority are l... 
Loudspeakers have we really made that much progress since the 1930s?
Shadorne You can say what ever you like toss out any num you feel. As long as you had fun its all good happy listening!  
Loudspeakers have we really made that much progress since the 1930s?
Shadorne nothings perfect all things have issues horns many benefits greatly off set the weakness. Pointing to a bit of 2nd order as a deal killer is also maybe not the best weakness that horns have to focus on. Also if you read till the end Jean ... 
Loudspeakers have we really made that much progress since the 1930s?
Phusis,{From my chair we'd need to re-visit these older horn designs more frequently, and build/design further on from them to truly make progress}  Much of modern design is about making things smaller maybe with loudspeakers if ultimate performan... 
Loudspeakers have we really made that much progress since the 1930s?
Atmasphere -Look at 1920s WE 555- 1930s 596A compression driver your saying TADs design isn't based on these early compression drivers?  Whats so different besides materials used?                                   I never knew you invented OTL I a... 
Loudspeakers have we really made that much progress since the 1930s?
shadorne    Horns have lower distortion than conventional drivers faster transient response than conventional drivers,are easier for amplifiers to drive can produce higher SPL than conventional drivers also exhibit greater dynamic range. and radia... 
Loudspeakers have we really made that much progress since the 1930s?
kosst agree that we may just be copying much of what came before with slight improvements and innovations with time and agree this could go as far back as fires discovery or farther. The reason that I point to the 1930s is that most of what we use... 
Loudspeakers have we really made that much progress since the 1930s?
larryi, Glad CAR exists and its a great option but there product in no way obsoletes vintage and I find it a bit funny that CAR was used as a example of advanced modern design since much of what they offer is cool modernized vintage design. And th... 
Loudspeakers have we really made that much progress since the 1930s?
koksst_amojan I cant answer a non sequitur. Threads about progress in loudspeaker design since the 1930s and maybe a lack of innovation or similarity of design in such things.  
Loudspeakers have we really made that much progress since the 1930s?
inna we do rely  much on computers for design might be why so much made today seems to not be-able to give soul or life to music and that we keep mining the past a time when humans designed for ideas horn speakers, tubes, LPs, tape all still being... 
Loudspeakers have we really made that much progress since the 1930s?
kosst_amojan -Zonda is a evolution of whats considered the 1st sports car 1914 Vauxhall.  Zonda did not create the idea of a sporting car it evolved its design based on the many many sports cars before it. What are Zondas original  advancements to...