Are Horn Speakers good with classic rock?

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Posted by LoWang (A) on May 9, 2007 at 23:38:14

Hello Everyone,
Currently I own a pair of Meadowlark Shearwaters (two-way, time-coherent) driven by a tube integrated. I love mellow sounding systems since the majority of mass market CDs are some-what harsh sounding. I have also recently been hooked to world-jazz music when a friend loaned me his copy of Renaud Garcia-Fons - Oriental Bass. I expect to be enlarging my Jazz collection soon but I still love classic rock.

I have not yet heard a good horn system other than your basic DJ speakers. Those DJ speakers definately sound distorted but I have always admired how effortless and dynamic they sound especially with live recordings. I always miss that huge dynamic range that actual live performances have (whether it be a jazz band or a concert) when listening to box speakers. If you play them too loud they tend to sound harsh rather then alive.

I've read somewhere in this forum that Horns (in particular, rear loaded single driver) are great with small scale works and solo recordings but for larger, more complex works (I thinking classic rock here) multi-way dynamic speakers are better. Anyone care to comment?

I hope to audition an Avantgarde Uno in NYC soon.

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Topic - Are Horn Speakers good with classic rock? - LoWang 23:38:14 05/09/07 (20)

For what its worth...... - doodlebug 08:10:13 05/14/07 (0)

Either horns or line arrays would be what I suggest (NT) - zobsky 10:41:23 05/10/07 (0)

Re: Are Horn Speakers good with classic rock? - Saturntube 09:10:54 05/10/07 (0)

Re: Are Horn Speakers good with classic rock? - stuck.wilson@gmail.com 06:15:12 05/10/07 (16)

FYI - Kloss 06:50:05 05/10/07 (15)

Backloaded horns - Tom Brennan 18:29:53 05/11/07 (9)

Re: Backloaded horns - Retsel 14:53:57 05/14/07 (7)

Back loaded horns can make excellent bass horns - Kloss 05:26:51 05/15/07 (6)

Re: Back loaded horns can make excellent bass horns - Retsel 14:23:15 05/15/07 (5)

I disagree - Kloss 14:55:23 05/15/07 (4)

Re: I disagree - Retsel 13:51:31 05/17/07 (0)

Re: Rear Horn Speakers - CL77scrambler 13:23:44 05/17/07 (2)

Re: Rear Horn Speakers - Kloss 13:49:08 05/17/07 (1)

Re: Rear Horn Speakers - CL77scrambler 14:32:42 05/17/07 (0)

Not all Backloaded horns are the same - Kloss 04:43:52 05/12/07 (0)

Re: FYI - stuck.wilson@gmail.com 08:04:15 05/10/07 (4)

Not offended by AA posts - Kloss 07:06:59 05/11/07 (1)

Re: Not offended by AA posts - stuck.wilson@gmail.com 07:20:20 05/11/07 (0)

What if you use a subwoofer? - LoWang 10:33:37 05/10/07 (1)

Re: What if you use a subwoofer? - Kloss 07:01:41 05/11/07 (0)

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