Horn Speaker Recommendations

@atmasphere  ... " your amplifier investment dollar will be best served by a speaker of 16 ohms rather than 8 or 4"

Curious, then why don't speaker manufacturers do this? Wouldn't they want their gear to sound the best possible? 

Curious, then why don’t speaker manufacturers do this? Wouldn’t they want their gear to sound the best possible?

@rockadanny

Honestly, I think they are pushing to go 4 ohms and lower to give the appearance of the speaker being easy to drive because generally speaking, as impedance goes down, sensitivity (as a measurement) goes up. The problem is sensitivity isn’t the same thing as efficiency, and with tube amps in particular efficiency is a much more usable specification/measurement! Beyond that, my opinion is they often haven’t made the connection between distortion on the spec sheet vs. what they hear. That increased distortion is audible as increased brightness and harshness.

John Atkinson’s eye-popping measurements of the Klipsch AK6 speakers in the September 2019 issue of Stereophile show that we have come a long ways, baby; but Klipsch has not.

@phomchick...And yet, the reviewer, Art Dudley, thought the new AK6 Khorns, at 15K, was a steal. Go figure. Enjoy ! MrD.

I think you would be doing yourself a favor if you purchased a moderate size horn and accompanied it with a pair of the Wilson Beseech Torus infrasonic generators. They are breath taking, fast and very deep and extremely musical as well as accurate. To get a horn to go that low and be that fast is really difficult. In addition and it is no small mater with the Torus you will be happy using them with any main speaker you ever buy. 

http://wilson-benesch.com/torus-infrasonic-generator/