Calling all Horn lovers

I have never heard Lascalas, but I can hear how they improve on the Cornwalls.

What version are you going with?

BTW, Bob is a great guy to deal with.

Shakey

Larry, WRONG! The distortions do not have to be there, they are very avoidable with good throat design, good phase plug design, and good horn design in both shape and materials. It is not "characteristic" in general, it is characteristic of flawed design.

And flawed design is not why horns are often very dynamic. That comes from very low excursion, resultant great linearity, and the fact that the horn is an acoustic transformer, matching the impedance of the driver and the air.

I wish I could say the number of folks who have heard horns in my place and said "that's the most sweet gentle, subtle, yet most powerful system I've heard".

Atma, some of that sound has to do with poor horn design. I have had them, and your amp does not fix poor horn/throat/phase plug design, no more than they fix poor cone speakers or poor electrostatics. Like stupid, for which there is no cure, poor driver design has no cure.

Hi Kiddman,
What horn speakers and amplifier are you using? Seems you have a very good match.
Charles,

Kiddman,

I have heard a LOT of different horn-based speakers. NONE were entirely free of some unnatural tonal coloration. But, that is the case with ALL other forms of speakers I've heard. I live with a horn-based system because, balancing all strengths and weaknesses, I prize what good horn systems can do. My horn-based midrange is very good, in terms of tonal quality and a lack of midrange peak or "shout" when played at lower volume, but, it does develop that quality to some extent when pushed a bit loud. Again, not perfect, but, on balance VERY good.

Perhaps you can enlighten us on what are some of the better designed drivers/horn combinations?

By the way, it is not only horn-based systems that can deliver amazing dynamics and presence that creates an almost "live" performance. I have heard that with both modern and antique fieldcoil drivers in non-horn systems too.