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In the Forum: Horn-Loaded Speakers
In the Thread: The IDEAL horn system
Post Subject: I really want to meaningfully reply to thisPosted by Dominic on: 1/31/2007
"because I "foresaw" that it would take a personally-developed 5-way system with dedicated amps not only to optimize this approach, but it would take about that just to overcome what I did/do not like about horns"

I tend to think it's more what i feel i'm heading towards simply because of how i want music played for me. How many people are doing it? Some

5-way horns...  now THAT is a LOT of very complicated work!  Add digital and you are on a Life Quest.

so is good sound

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has someone... actually gotten good results with anything touched on here.....the only digitally-controlled sound I have heard is "high-end" HT stuff, and, not surprizing perhaps, I heard nothing apart from the pure scale of it that would make me want to pursue this any further.  Not that I mind (appropriate) "Big Sound" for orchestral works...  But the overall quality of the reproduction has been another matter altogether, as you might imagine.  I should admit that I am not pre-disposed to insert digital this and that into a system, again, because the learning curve is so steep for me, and the audible promise of it has been so faint to this point that I simply have not bothered to learn it.

I can't argue with you, it hasn't been done right yet. Digital has to be fully integrated and should only have two conversions 1 at the recording and one before the speaker. It can't really be done right yet since the whole digital world revolves not around good sound (or picture for that atter) but expediency. George Lucas didn't start recording w/ digital cameras because it looks better. Mr starwars did it so that he could manipulate the imagery in a more freeform manner without having to scan film stock. That benefits a digital plaback to no end. The whole promise i think comes from the fact that, theoretically you can have more control over the signal without introducing error if the software is written right. One interesting thing to note is that photoshop can work in higher bit rate colour than anything can transduce, but it's done in order to maintain dynamic range. Problem is we have the same thing going on with audio, it's recorded and mastered at bitrates that far exceed even, um what were those dvd-based audio discs called?- That's why i suggested what i did. It is totally doable with the right approach, to even provide seperate multibit per channel (speaker) streams, phase, time, and amplitude etc corrected and do any of those corrections cleanly and intuitively in software. But that day has not come.

I'd really much rather keep the whole thing Analog.

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