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In Reply to: The Pros and Cons of Horn Speakers posted by cawson@onetel.com on August 21, 2024 at 05:19:58:
Direct radiator speakers can also have very narrow sweet spots in a heavily acoustically treated room, though the people running the room at the usual hi fi shows don't usually have the time and means to do this in a typical hotel room. Some years ago a friend took me out to hear the latest Magico speakers which went for around $30,000 a pair at a local hi fi salon. The speakers were placed on the long wall of a rectangular room (while us horn guys would have used the short wall to benefit from the corner loading). The walls were heavily treated with non-reflective panels, as was the floor. I listened from several seats and was finally able to get the one center "sweet spot". The localization of the various instruments in the orchestral piece playing was very good, however the whole thing fell apart if you moved one seat either way out of the sweet spot! My friend was very impressed, but I said "Have you ever heard a symphony orchestra where half the orchestra disappeared if you moved one seat over?". My friend had a confused look on his face, like I was being too picky. He is an operatic tenor who has attended many concerts from both the orchestra and the audience. Some time later he wanted to go back and hear the Magicos again, but I declined as I did'nt care for them, and I said "The time would be better spent listening to music at home". By this I meant my mid-fi 5 channel home theater with Pioneer CS 88 (12" 3 ways) as the R/L mains. It seemed like the whole "soundstage" thing established by Absolute Sound and Stereophile magazines would fade away with the popularity of the home theater scene and big HD TV's and 5.1 sound, but two speaker "one seat wonder" stereo speaker pairs are still getting a lot of attention in the magazines. Awhile ago Magico came out with their Ultima horn speakers which were going for close to one million a pair. I pointed the Ultimas out to my friend and I told him from the pictures that I thought they were "..over built, over priced, and under-engineered". My friend seemed to think I had a lot of nerve to say this by his reaction, so I took a picture of the Ultimas, did some cut and paste, and touched it up with oil crayons. I showed this to him and said "This is how these speakers should be made". I don't think I convinced him with my cheap craftsy collage compared with the Ultima asking price.
Paul
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