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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
weseixas
519 posts
 
The OP has gotten out of horns and now the church attempts to drag him back in by flaming others.

Dan_ed, John-k, it appears the mods allow you guys to flame others without recourse. John-K why don't you try backing up your rhetoric with some real data, I mean you claim a lot, show something, instead you choose to flame others..

I'm not here promoting any topology, I have never told anyone to switch from horns, ESL, ribbons , Thiels or anything for that matter. It doesn't matter what you or the others think sound the "best", that's the choice we all have and make when we put together " our" system.

What i will not let pass is the Phoobie dust science you guys spew for reality, no! i will not allow such to go uncheck and i know enuff about horns to know they do not work for me, preferring speakers which are more time and phase coherent with low coloration...

Dig !!!

weseixas
519 posts
 
*Regular dome tweeters don't handle very much power (2 watts is common)………
*There are of course many tweeters than handle more than 2 watts,……….
*But 2 watts is indeed quite common……..

- Atmasphere

Ahh err, OK so let me see if i get this right, so as not to misquote you again.

Regular dome tweeters don't handle very much more than 2 watts, but many tweeters do and 2 watts is quite common?

OK so one can conclude that regular and common only handle 2 watts, but "many" handle more, so if one wants a tweeter that handle's more than 2 watts one would get a "many " tweeter and stay away from the "Regular" and "common" models.

Seriously Ralph forget about OTL Tubes and negative feedback, you are on to something better than Redbull.

Regards,
unsound
7,329 posts
 
Mrdecibel, your presumptions are quite amazing. Once again, the zealots make it personal.
weseixas
519 posts
 
Ohh,

Atmasphere, I think you meant to say more sensitive than a dome tweeter not efficient.

For eg,

ESL's are very efficient in the bass, so there will be some some synergy with your high output impedance OTL's..

Regards,
weseixas
519 posts
 

Unsound, just for the record, I have stated many many times that I own a pair of "Klipsch Lascalas" so maybe you were not paying attention.

04-26-11: Mrdecibel

And you are knocking Thiel's ...... LOL.
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