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MusicLover wrote:

Higher even order distortion sounds richer and makes the sound "more live" to most people. YOu can get that anywhere in the signal chain.

I know about it but it is NOT a reverse statement. It is very frequently that people do feel that reproduced sounds are “richer” and the entire sound "more live” when the even order distortions, and predominantly the second harmonics dominate.  However, when the second harmonic take over then it is not necessary and not enough for Sound to become richer or "more live". In fact if to looks at it deeper then the dominion of even harmonics do not make sound “richer” but rather “fatter”. It requires some other things to be taken care at the same time in order to get the real benefits of the puffy lower even harmonics.

MusicLover wrote:

If I play a note in a trumpet, just one note, and stop, the mouth of the trumpet (also a horn, yes?) leads to a certain decay of that note. SAme with a piano. different decay. Now, how should a speaker driver material behave? Should it behave like hte piano or the trumpet. Or should it not have any decay at all?

It is very incorrect vision form my point of view. You should not confuse decay characteristic of trumpet or piano with decay characteristic of driver. In driver the decay pattern from impulse would be described by array of the very different parameters: the frequency of the test, the dynamic characteristic of amplification, the amplifier driver interface, the topology and type of the driver, the topology and the type driver of a baffle, the decay factors of the testing room, the type of electrical, mechanism or any another suspension was used with the driver, the day how the driver damped, the proximity of the test tone to the driver frequency boundaries, the relationship between the amplitude of the test signal and flex modulation within the driver magnetic structure and so on and so on. A driver should not behave like piano or trumpet, it juts physically will not do so and even presuming that driver has any resemblance with acoustic instruments lead nowhere else then into the jangles of audio demagogy.

MusicLover wrote:

WEll, I haven;t heard all horns, mainly from Klipsch & Altec, and also quite a few horns that wer edesigned using hornrep and other software. I have no idea what you mean by slow & gray. I assume you are trying to convey some sort of emotion you feel when you listen to these horns, but I honestly don;t feel that. I like them!

This is the problems in your views: the Klipsch & Altec are juts very poor horn of from my point of view then are not horns at all but rather the pile drivers with some kind of shutters attached to them. Also those Hornrep guys, as I have seen and heard them, are completely clueless what they do. I do not try to convey any emotions. I juts saying that a serious professional boxer who know what to do during a fight would make one hit to send appoint in knockdown. However, a street’s teenager who is familiar about art of fist-fighting only from watching it on TV would wave his hands in air imitating the externally observable movements of the martial art specialists. The point of it is that what you heard what you call horns, experiencing the Klipsch, Altec and the Hornrep’s “intelligence”, was not the real horns but juts the audio teenagers who are making the big spins with this hands and the ridiculously freighting faces….

Also, MusicLover, I get quite strong feeling that you kind of mocking and humoring this site and me with you comments. You really could not be serious with what you are saying. Well, consider that you have succeeded.

Rgs,
Romy the caT

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