Lowther drivers, front horn or back loaded horn?

alanbrain....you have a great system. if you're thinking horns, go straight to klipsch cornwalls or heresys....lowther based systems (except for the most expensive and heavy cabinets)won't do bass, and in all honesty, your tylers are pretty darn good.

In a front horn more dynamic has controled dispersion,less interaction with room, trebile will roll off sooner you will need to add a bass system probly biamp.If in a back horn you can get by without added bass system you will lose some dynamics trebile will not roll off as soon you can pick up more colorations from BLH cabinets then front horn.A front horn will need more room for drivers to integrate at listening postion.A blh you can use in near field.Add arround +4-+6db for front horn this means lower power amps can be used but also amps must have lower noise floor for front horns.Of the 2 I perfer front.And why not look into fostex lowthers while good do have compition.

Front horns are much better than back loaded horns, BLH are IMHO boring, they dont do anything bad, but nothing real good either.
Front horns are the king of low level detail and dinamics, and thats were the fun is!
With both setups you will need a subwoofer!
Lowther in front horns becomes softer sounding.
Lowther in a Back loaded horn is "funny" sounding, if you go BLH get Fostex better.

Lowther is an interesting and good sounding speaker. But there is one thing that bothering me is the different timing of the mid/high and the low frequency arrive at the listening position. The mid/high go straight to the listening position but the low frequency has to travel 6 to 8ft more than the mid/high. A horn loaded Lowther is inherently flaw sounding speaker but still sound way more interesting than most of the shoe box speakers available. If you like the sound of the horn loaded Lowther, than you will for sure like the sound from full blown Altec/JBL or other horn speaker systems. When done correctly, there is no time delay in the low frequency when comparing to the mid/high.

Thanks for the answers.
I was planning to put a Lowther PM2A in a 160 Azura Horn without crossover. For the bass, I was thinking on making to use a JBL 2226, in a bass reflex bos or a bass horn.
Any advice?

Thanks
Alan