Why not horns?

Interesting article, Duke, although much of it went over my head.

I've seen a lot of references over the years to the JBL K-2 and Everest speakers as if they represent a pinnacle of speaker design. Do you know anything about them and how well they stand up to other statement speakers?

Here we are at half-time in the World Cup Final and I have to revise a comment I made a while ago. I called the Dutch physical. After watching a half where they should have wound up playing with only 9 guys on the field, I want to say that the Dutch are a chippy, chickensh*t, cheating bunch of thugs. Hup yours, Holland.

Thanks, Macrojack. Since posting the link, I have "met" one of that paper's authors in another online forum (he and I are disagreeing about something... surprise surprise!).

I don't have any experience with either the K-2 or Everest, but I'm sure they're awesome.

The original Everest, circa 1985, used an asymmetrical horn to achieve the desired toe-in angle without having to actually toe the speakers inward:

Original JBL Everest

I borrowed the concept; one of my models uses asymmetrical enclosures to achieve the same end, but with a conventional symmetrical horn.

Duke

Duke - It appears from photos of the K-2 that Usher made a copy of it at one point. Is the Usher as good? Or better?

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Love the subwoofers :)