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In the Forum: Horn-Loaded Speakers
In the Thread: Book "High Quality Horn Loudspeaker Systems" by Bjørn Kolbrek and Thomas Dunker
Post Subject: The honeymoon night.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 12/27/2019
I spend probably 30 mins with the book today, mostly browsing
some areas that I would be interested. You know I was not thrilled with what I
have read. Certainly, there is a lot in the book that has been covered but covered
from some very strange perspective. The book feels like it is an academic
thesis, some lab study and for some reasons it has very little analyses of
actions and consequence of horn design decisions. The most unpliant to me that
the book has no practical implications. The purpose of horns-loading installation
is to produce sound and the authors as it appears absolutely did not explore sonic
values of the described design ideas. That all feel more feel to me like a book
about horns autopsy then horns as music making instruments. In the way the tone
of the book reminds me the conversations with Joe Roberts who has encyclopedic knowledge
on the subject but who in practical term able just to run mouth to pimping the
pre-paid campaigns. I certainly do not blame
Mr. Kolbrek and Mr. Dunker to have bad intentions
- they did their share of the labor of love but I wish they found less academic,
less hypothetical and more loving way to sell the subject of high-fidelity horn
loading installations. I do not know Mr.
Kolbrek but Mr. Dunker use to have a very elegant and very populist (in
positive and elitist connotation) way to talk about horns. I am not sure why
for the book they chose that dry, denied any applied practicality, denied any feelings
narrative. I might change my mind as I read more but my initial looking into
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