people who may have spent upwards of $10k per pair for their speakers,, and do not have some kind of horn set-up, probably haven't really heard a good set of horn-based speakers.
Why not horns?
I've owned a lot of speakers over the years but I have never experienced anything like the midrange reproduction from my horns. With a frequency response of 300 Hz. up to 14 Khz. from a single distortionless driver, it seems like a no-brainer that everyone would want this performance. Why don't you use horns?
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I've owned a lot of speakers over the years but I have never experienced anything like the midrange reproduction from my horns. With a frequency response of 300 Hz. up to 14 Khz. from a single distortionless driver, it seems like a no-brainer that everyone would want this performance. Why don't you use horns?macrojack05-22-2010 9:08am
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Just experiened my 1st EVER horn in my system, Richard Gray, noted how i was suffering after spending $$$$$$$$ Upgrading My SEAS Thor MTM speakers, especially with buying brand new Millennium MIDRANGE/Tweeters. So he dug around in his stash room, and found a pair of early 1960's, Magnovox tweeter horns, with a small alnico magnet. WOWWWW UNREAL. So i figured we will need to finda midrange horn, same era, early 1960's,. The choice was EV Wolverine and the Jensen midrange horn, same build as the Mgnovox, alnico, came out of the Jensen Tro ETTE 2 way 1960's speaker. The Jensen arrives today. I am excited. I have the Mag tweet running with a 2.2 Mundorf Supreme Silver Oil, and this runs from ohh say 9k up, I will disconnect the new DavidLouis 4 incher **Full** range**( actually its a high bass through upper midrange, highs roll off), and so my speaker will be Dual W18E001 + Jensen Midhorn + Magnovox Tweeterhorn. 87db + ohh say 97ish db. I am very confident the Jensen Mid horns will easily shootout the 91db DavidLouis FR. Only have a 8.2 Mundorf EVO SGO cap, here, Richard will look around his shop for a 4uf and on Monday I can add the 4uf and bring the mid horn down to ohhh say, 1600, which is where my W18's come up to, 1600, have 2 Mundorf caps on the bass. The Mundorf SESGO cap is the finest bass producing cap, Rock sold bass notes. Will post a note after installing Horns Rule |
tpreaves2,633 posts05-22-2010 9:55am it seems like a no-brainer that everyone would want this performance.I find most horns too "in the face" for my likin ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I was very interested in the new 18 Sound horns, and such, weighing in at 8-15 lbs each. Richard screamed at me,,**Those are for concerts, they'll rip your ears off*** He also suggested I avoid JBL's as they are too aggresive, Especailly as he knows i like very near field listening, low volume. , small room. I have a gut feeling the Jensen purchase was a good deal. These Jensen Mid horns are rare/hard to find. Paid $250/pair |
unsound6,882 posts05-22-2010 11:01amI absolutely loathe horns! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ So lets have this shootout Seas Millennium tweeter, worlds finest mid tweeter. vs a high quality early 1960's american made horn. Horn will annihilate any /all dome tweeters. db sens is what makes horns~~~ far~~~ superior to any tweeter from Seas and Scanspeak. |
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