Horning Perikles w Frankenstein amp


anyone other there heard the Horning Perikles or any other Horning speaker w Coincident's Frankenstein 300b amp? No problem w power rating- the speakers are 96 dB but not sure if the amp will be able to control the two, 8" woofers.
swampwalker
Aren't the Hornings designed with single ended triode amps in mind. I agree though that moving a lot of air is not easy its a reactive load. The other thing is where that sensitivity is being measured.
I own Klipsch La Scalas which have a ridiculous sensitivity of over 100 Db/W/M. The problem is that all that volume comes from one enormous and loud squaker horn. The 15 inch woofer barely moves Lord knows what the poor tweeter is up to. The measurement must be at something like 1K Hz.
The Horning is designed to be very compatible for SET use. My speakers
have two 10" woofers and when I replaced my 100 watt push pull tube
amp with the Frankensteins there was no problem, the sound improved, a
different world.
People who own various Hornings seem to drive them with SET amplifiers
and are happy. I suspect that other amplifier types work well also.lf you
look through the Virtual system section under Horning you'll find a number
of people with lower power SETs driving them.
Swampwalker,
Marshall Nack reviewed the Horning Agathon Ultimate(this used two 12" woofers per speaker) and he used 5 or 6 different 300b SET amps with comments on all of them. This was in Positive Feedback Online issue # 20. From what he found I don`t think your smaller woofer version Horning would be a problem.