2. speakers
  3. 1301176196

What does one purchase after owning horns?

I have owned Avantgarde Uno's and sold them because of the lack of bass to horn integration. I loved the dynamics, the midrange and highs. Now faced with a new speaker purchase, I demo speakers and they sound lifeless and contrived. The drama and beauty of live music and even the sound of percussion insturments like a piano are not at all convincing. I have an $8k budget for speakers give or take a thousand. My room is 13'X26' firing down the length. Any good ideas will be appreciated. My music prefrences are jazz/jazz vocalist.
renmeister
atmasphere's avatar
atmasphere
11,958 posts
 
Chadeffect, it does appear the newer Trio has a higher impedance. Their website does not have a lot of technical data, but it seems pretty sure that 3 of the 4 passive crossover components must be caps. If a choke is added to the bass horn, the overall impedance would not be such a hard load for tube amps as the earlier Trios. Overall it would appear that the speaker is nominally an 8 ohm load.
shiva
181 posts
 
Check out Tom Danley's Jericho horn playing on youtube.
paulfolbrecht
603 posts
 
No, I did not tweak my Klipsches. I know they can be made better. Thought they were great on some music but could be almost painful at other times.

In some ways the humble Forte really was the favorite.
duomike
76 posts
 
regarding distortions of horns I remember a very old stereophile review of the original duo's from '97.
martin collums measured THD at 110 db! the midhorn had only around 0,1% THD and the tweeter 0,3%. I doubt even a speaker like wilson's alexandria could compete with that.
of course the build in sub had much higher distortions at that level.
believe many planars would get fried when attempting to measure their distortions at that level!
shadorne's avatar
Ag insider logo xs@2x
shadorne
7,477 posts
 
martin collums measured THD at 110 db! the midhorn had only around 0,1% THD and the tweeter 0,3%. I doubt even a speaker like wilson's alexandria could compete with that.

That is exceptional compared to most conventional speakers. It suggests they got the horn design well optimized. Is there a link to the article?
More to discover