Change to Horns or stay Dynamic

"The Jazz module is similar in design to the Summa. It has recently received a golden ear award from TAS"

The TAS GEA was given to Duke's Dream Maker.

Kana,

Oops! Guess you're right.

Although this is the case it should also be known that the Dream Maker uses the same drivers arranged back and front in a bi-pole configuration, so it's sonic signature should be close to that of the monopole.

This loudspeaker also uses pro-drivers made by TAD and Beyma. See a trend here?

Sadly - the use of pro drivers is all but ignored - however a nice shiny aluminium driver with stunning shiny copper phase plug => that will catch the eye everytime and have audiophiles reaching for their credit card everytime - especially when the listener is reminded about how fast these small lightweight woofers are and how plodding the old dumb sound reinforcement dated big woofers of the 70's JBL crowd are....

Furthermore a big ugly black paper Volt woofer with massive 3 inch voice coil and a massive frontal ribbed heat sink which is also ugly black to help dissipate heat and reduce thermal compression and as used on PMC speakers...no that is butt ugly and so out of place among those tall slender veneered beauties...forget it...most dealers won't even carry this kind of monster!

As Jaybo puts is so well - some audiophiles hear what they see!

I done horns, planners and dynamic speakers - some a couple of times. It was fun, painful and rewarding. Each time I settled on a speaker type I had changed out other components to better match that speaker type. So figure that in too, because it will happen. Now i got off that merry-go-round and picked dynamics, third time, for better all around performance (IMHO). You may decide something else. My only advice is get the dealer support you deserve. Insist on it.

How many responses on these thread where from dealers? Bet there are a few and that's good. Why not sept up to providing a home demo, free or not, of some of these expensive horns? This might be difficult to arrange, but once you narrowed down your preferred horns to three. Find dealers that will do that home demo.

To Gerrum6
You are right about "merry-go-round"

Horns, dynamics, planars are like cars. How can you compare Lamborgini to a Hummer? People tend to replace SUVs with Corvette for no reason. Is there a need for a car to drive 200 mph?

Is there a need for an audio system to produce 120 db peak?

Symphony orchestra is playing one flute, but in the next second the orchestra barks with the whole power.
Most of the brass instruments can alone produce 120 db. There are 120 or so different instrumens in the orchestra.

You are sitting at row 20, a flute is about 40-45 db. The orchestra BARKS. It is about 120 db at the row 20.
The difference is 80 db.
CD can record 90 db of a difference (called dynamic range). Recording engineer has to compress the sound. Some engineers can hide compression better though, but all sounds are too BIG to fit on CD.
No matter what it is, Jazz you name it. I bet to record a girl with the guitar some 6 db of compression is still needed.