shadorne
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| What does one purchase after owning horns? martin collums measured THD at 110 db! the midhorn had only around 0,1% THD and the tweeter 0,3%. I doubt even a speaker like wilson's alexandria could compete with that. That is exceptional compared to most conventional speakers. It suggests the... | |
| What does one purchase after owning horns? Shadorne you do not mention SPL level for conventional design distort much when near max SPL. John - yes that is true. I was just passing on info on horns. In conventional designs if you need higher SPL and need good linearity then big and beefy ... | |
| Do you remember your first cd? Duran duran's decade. In the late 80's. That album was a good collection of the radio single hits, however, Strange Behaviour is the one to go for with the glorious club extended mixes with extreme dynamics. Duran Duran roots was as a night club d... | |
| Transiberian Orcestra Seen them live and yes it was indeed a great show and way better than I ever expected. | |
| What does one purchase after owning horns? Here is some info on horns. Non-linear distortion in the compression chamber rises with output as well as with higher frequency and is exacerbated by long horns with less flare. Distortion can be as high as 20% or more in 2nd and 3rd order harmoni... | |
| For all you Clapton fans.... How about the John Mayall 'Blues Breakers' album......mid 60's?WITH Eric Clapton in a pre-cream appearance. Yup - a great album. Try also Peter Green and Stan Webb while we are discussing British versions of the Blues.As Pee wee Ellis once said (... | |
| What does one purchase after owning horns? Is it just me? I read the title of this thread, "What does one purchase after owning horns?", and thought the owner was looking for alternatives to horns but a speaker that retained many of the great things the OP likes about horns?(and English is... | |
| For all you Clapton fans.... A huge fan here. I like him most when he is being pushed by Steve Ferone (on drums). | |
| What does one purchase after owning horns? Weseixas,I see you are just a troll trying to pick a fight. I will not waste any more time on you. Have a good day.Unsound,I agree entirely. If horns were so very much better than everything else then why are they marginalized to such a small segm... | |
| What does one purchase after owning horns? "Painting with a broad brush Shadorne, not all panel speakers use one panel and suffers from such"All panels use diaphragms that are much larger than is desirable for broad even dispersion of their entire frequency range, small panels reduce the i... | |
| What does one purchase after owning horns? Panel speakers suffer from having a diaphragm that is larger than the wavelengths being reproduced. This results in comb filtering and a highly variable with frequency and an uneven sound field with listener position. This makes them unsuitable fo... | |
| What does one purchase after owning horns? Here is a historyMain MonitorsHorn systems have also improved and modern Westlake's with TAD drivers are amazingly good too as are JBL's or Meyers. My comments here are not to bash horns at all! Just mentioning alternatives - that is all. Although... | |
| What does one purchase after owning horns? I would add that it is advances in technology that allowed conventional drivers to compete with horns in terms of dynamics: ferrofluid in tweeters, massive voice coils and high powered solid state electronics. In order to compete with horn inheren... | |
| What does one purchase after owning horns? " but only horns have the uncompressed sound that many want and are willing to make sacrifices in other areas to get . "Genelec and ATC replaced horn (Altec604, Westlake, etc) main monitors in high-end recording studios starting in the mid 80's. M... | |
| Bass Trap help Acoustic panels have very little effect below 100Hz a few dB is about all you can expect. Meanwhile room modes can easily be 15 dB or more. Straddle the panels across the corners. However you should hear a big improvement in the lower midrange. |