johnk
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| Why not horns? As Herman pointed out back loaded horns really are not horns at all. But this has been debated to death in other forums so most agree that a BLH design is a horn. Most as is mine is a combo or large ported cabinet firing into flared TL. Thus able ... | |
| Why not horns? Horns can be designed to work great at less than 10ft sitting distance depends on design. | |
| Why not horns? Herman, The tweeters a horn Fostex t500amk2 , mids horn, midbass horn and the bass system is a 8ft tall back loaded bass horn. If you want full front loading of bass into infra sound as this horn does it would be 25ft l by 25 w. | |
| Opinions on the Zaph Audio ZRT Revelator Towers ? Loud is not dynamic. | |
| Why not horns? Lots of personal bias, limited experience, a passing listen now your an expert. Why forum response can be a true waist of time if real info is desired. I can have any loudspeaker design I want I choose horns. And no they do not honk have audible d... | |
| Klipschorn Imaging I can get Altecs to image ;) | |
| When is an amp ‘just too old? ’ To buy? Its hit and miss with age. I would suggest buying new. Musical Fidelity [gasp did I say MF] makes a wonderful sounding amp M6PRX 260 watts xlr rca built to last easy to use. I own one. Sounds qualities are better than the other far more costly SS ... | |
| Recommended Speaker for Triode Amp I do thank others for suggesting KCS but I do not think our 2 standard offerings would work for you. Having owned and heard many Theil loudspeakers I do think you might want more extension in low frequency. So if interested in KCS would need a cus... | |
| High Efficiency Altec is far better than Klipsch look for Altec model 15 | |
| Seeking "Crossover Networks For Dummies," please A crossovers selected to work with total design. 1st orders sound wonderful but are hard to pull off proper. Other networks are also of use to designers for various reasons. So no type of network is really superior to another just best to use netw... | |
| Speaker refinish Proac uses plastic coat. What you have is sun shadow so exposing area under grille to UV will cause finish to match up shouldn't take more than a few months. | |
| Subwoofers - Grille off or on? Some loudspeakers are designed to be used with grilles in place some without. | |
| Subwoofers - Grille off or on? If its operating as a true subwoofer below 50hz or so then you shouldn't hear any difference on or off. Unless it vibrating on baffle. | |
| How to tame brightness Try different toe in, more,less, loudspeaker may have a on axis peak in response this could reduce it. Also address room acoustics if you have not, might but be a reflection off side wall floor etc. | |
| full range speaker suggestions for Aura Note Altec model 19 |