In Reply to: The Pros and Cons of Horn Speakers posted by cawson@onetel.com on August 21, 2024 at 05:19:58:
A big advantage of horn speakers is that it's easy to make them high efficiency.
High efficiency speakers tend to have better dynamic freedom, clarity and detail - when compared to low efficiency speakers.
My speculation is that part of the reason for that is the moving mass for the electromotive force on offer.
As well as the better coupling of the transducer to the air (already covered well in this thread with the oar analogy).
The biggest con of high efficiency speakers is getting high efficiency in the bass. This is easiest done by going large to huge. Hoffman's Iron Law.
Another con of horns is the manufacturing costs compared to low efficiency.
But when you're buying used / going DIY the price you pay can bear little correlation to the manufacturing cost.
I think that a nice little challenge is to get speakers that sound better overall than Avantgarde Duo XD's whilst spending less than $2000 per stereo pair.
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