The only speakers you can really listen up close to are full range ESLs as everything is coming from one driver. Sonically you never get close to the speaker. As you move towards two and three way speakers it becomes obvious at some point that you are listening to a loudspeaker as the frequency range separates into different drivers. The sound changes. As you walk up to an ESL the sound seems to remain in the distance, unchanged. Horns are no different than any other two or three way speaker.
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My speakers are hybrid (CD) horns with two 15'' woofers and a horn above said woofers. That said, the speakers are very coherent and offer a high degree of placement flexibility, and the listening positing can be quite close with no loss of stereo imaging. I.e. You can sit three feet or twenty three feet, from the speakers both standing and seated listeners, with no loss of stereo image. In my opinion a high powered amplifier will never be a proxy for a speakers lack of true efficiency. See below time domain response: 😎 Mike http://proaudioencyclopedia.com/time-domain-response-in-monitor-loudspeakers/ |
i havent used horns in a while, but i bet horns sound better comin out of horns. i bet u get closer to the sound of horns via horn speakers. in both cases, you got a horn blowin air into the room. thought about this when wondering why the elctric guitar seems the easiest to capture. well, in a room or on a record, for an electric guitar its speaker cones pushin air. |
I had made some altec horn diy speakers back in the late 70s.....sounded horny as hell......and harsh. I then discovered a local high end dealer who had K-horns and Quad electrostats.......I asked him to A/B the speakers......and they sounded very close in quality. HOWEVER.....this was a nude unfinished K-horn. You could see the xover right on top and the tweeter was mounted all the way in the back....right over the midrange driver......no other mods. He told me that if he put the tweeter back on the front panel I would run screaming out the door. YOU MUST TIME ALIGN......why the heck would you want the tweeter info to arrive a decade before the midrange.....and same with the bass. The Jubilee is time aligned in the electronic xover......so this is the only Klipsch done correctly......no wonder the designer says he thinks the Jubilee is way, way better than anything before.....and you have the tweeter and mids coming from one place....so the only time alignment needed is to the bass bins.....which they did.....good on them. |
@ricevs " tweeter and mids ".....high frequencies and midrange. The Jubilee is a two way design, which I believe you understand. Paul always wanted a TOTL 2 way, and Roy took it to market🙂. My best, MrD. |
