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In the Forum: Horn-Loaded Speakers
In the Thread: Adding one more spherical to Macondo.

Post Subject: MF ramblings &&&Posted by jessie.dazzle on: 10/30/2008

Romy wrote :

"...Do what I did. Stop experimenting with horns and begin to actually USE your playback..."

If I am in the house and not sleeping, the system is on.

"...If you still have an itch to “think horn” then insult others about their wrong horn moves. It keeps you hands free and fulfills your desire to exercise own findings about what works with horn..."

Ok, but I have one sort of radical idea that I think may really be worth trying. Once I've tried it, I will start insulting others!

"...if I use the still and very heavy Dominus cables then they apply force to the S2/S3 binging posts…"

Do what I did. Make strain reliefs for each cable using mini-bungie cords. Wrap the mini-bungie cord around the heavy cables, and attach its hooks to something on your frames (the mini-bungies come in black). I use them everywhere, including on power cords up near the component. This is the ultimate cable elevator, which I personally garentee will get you closer to Patricia's leg.

"...What I was trying to say is that if your Fundamental Channel operates before MF Channel. If your Fundamental Channel goes all the way up to 2000Hz then your MF Channel most likely kicks in at higher frequency. If your MF stars at 2000Hz then there is no need to keep it in 450Hz horn. The smaller horn would be better in this case..."

I have the upper MF channel (S2 into 400Hz horn) set up to make sound from 2KHZ and up (of course to hit this target, the filter had to be set for a much higher frequency). I did have the RTA out long enough verify that, and to know where the upper-bass, fundamentals, and MF horn were operating relative to each other.

"...I am sure that people who express long words about loudspeakers would fund what I juts proposed as sacrilege but they need to understand own limitations…"

Well I assume you mean the "pros". After this weekend at the Paris Hifi show (first one ever for me), I cannot say that I place much value in what the "pros" might think.

Man, honestly, what crap sound in most every room, including those run by the respected names of the industry.

Best was the Wilson/Audio Research room (a suit actually) : In this room was a pair of Alexandrias driven by 100% Audio Research electronics, including a pair of big "Reference 210" amps.

To their credit, the guy running this rig was playing mostly complex, large-scale orchestral music.

I was however expecting more from such a setup (around $200K, electronics + speakers). Though they are supposed to make 210 watts each, the Alexandrias actually sounded under-driven, and not able to produce live concert levels; the sort of max levels one might use at home when the wife is out shopping on a Saturday.

Nevertheless, though this room did sound best to me (which is not saying much), I walked away thinking how much potency and life the system lacked compared to what I've come to expect; and this in both the mid frequencies as well as (surprisingly) the bass.

Other expectations : I was expecting to be tempted to spend money on something at the show, but left the place sort of laughing.

jd*

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