Who here other than me doesn't get the same level of soundsaging from horns that other speakers give? I've owned the Sound Labs, obviously a 'stat speaker--they offer remarkable soundstaging--so I'm not 'tied to' dynamics. But, I've never heard a horn sound quite right,(to my ears obviously) in terms of just raw staging. What is it that I'm missing? And which horns can and do stage accurately? This comment is not meant to illicit an angry of defensive response, but more of a simple question. |
Lrsky, your comments about soundstaging have so offended me I would like to meet you half-way between our two residences for a fistfight. Ok, seriously, I think this is an issue with multi-way front horns and I think it's a coherence issue. (Single-driver) back horns don't have this issue - in fact, they usually soundstage very well indeed. |
Lrsky, the field-coil powered Classic Audio Loudspeakers will do the same imaging and detail as the Sound Labs, without horn artifact. The speaker is 98 db and goes from 20Hz to 35KHz. If you search this website look for comments on the speaker from either the RMAF 2008 or T.H.E. Show 2009. One thing to keep in mind is that most horns will not sound right with transistors- that in fact is where the 'horn sound' myth comes from. For more information see http://www.atma-sphere.com/papers/paradigm_paper2.html Field-coils are the dynamic speaker equivalent of the powered Electrostatic Field in an ESL. In essence this gives the driver the same speed that an ESL can exhibit, and for the same reason: the motive field does not sag when the amplifier powers the diaphragm to move. |
