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In Reply to: RE: The Pros and Cons of Horn Speakers posted by cawson@onetel.com on August 21, 2024 at 05:19:58
Pros - it's the best speaker topogy ever conceived
Cons - it mostly attracts the worse most infantile spectrum of audio guns
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> Pros - it's the best speaker topogy ever conceivedNot true in my view. The room acoustics and design are the most important factors when choosing a speaker type. In my room, omnis should be best, though I stick with horns as their imaging is so much better. ELS speakers don't suit my room because there is no wall behind them, but they will suit other rooms as well or better than horns.
> Cons - it mostly attracts the worse most infantile spectrum of audio guns
Certainly there are a lot of horn haters, but they have probably never encountered a well designed system that is properly set up. I had always passed by horn demo rooms at audio shows because of the ugly (JBL, Klipsch, etc) or zany (Avantgarde, hORNS, etc) looks, but I was convinced to try Avantgarde speakers following the 2000 Uno review in Stereophile. This excellent and thorough review described EXACTLY what I was looking for in a loudspeaker.
Anyone unaware of the lifelike sounds that high quality horn speakers can deliver should read this review - or just skip to Conclusions on Page 5. And of course their speakers are much improved wince then - I'm on my 3rd pair.
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You just undermined one of your horn speaker strengths...directionality doesn't interact with the room as much...therefore, the room design is less critical and would generally favor a horn speaker.
Good to see you around, Brad! Those Odeons have developed a fairly nice rig around them. I have the system listed in my profile if you're interested.
No - I said that horn speakers are less adversely affected by room features than any other type of speaker.
Their directional projection of sound means less reflected sounds from walls, ceiling, etc. They are less likely to benefit from DSP than other types in poorly treated rooms - for the same fundamental reason. I hope this clarifies my earlier post.
Line sources are less affected by the room than any other type of speaker, as the restricted vertical directivity reduces early reflections off the floor and ceiling, while horizontal dispersion is unaffected. Line sources may be either direct radiating or horn loaded. As for the directional projection of horns, that may be configured narrower than a direct radiator, but it doesn't have to be narrower than a direct radiator. CD horns, for example.
In reality, the least room involvement is from the greatest directivity and a large horn can have a much greater "front to back" ratio than a large array.
A large bass line array in fact can radiate as much to the rear as the front, a curved array can radiate more to the sides than forward in spite of the mythology.
The issue in large scale sound has been how to make a large enough horn and full range.
Yes. You have "been there, done that," Tom.s. Anyone who ever hears your products is convinced in about 3 seconds flat. The rest are mostly bovine sediment.
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