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Horn listeners - Do you have trouble listening to others?

Hi peeps,

I just had an interesting experience out of my home. I listened to 3 pairs of speakers:

McIntoshMagicoSome unknown theater speaker during Aquaman

And one characteristic followed me: strident / glare
No matter which system played I heard them get glaring at high volumes. Like distortion rose rapidly. I'm wondering if this is because I have become accustomed to high-quality AMT tweeters which are remarkably free of distortion or dynamic compression.

The reason I'm asking you horn peeps this is that dynamic range is one of the main selling points for horn speakers. Do you feel uncomfortable in the same ways?

If so, this is good evidence that we are hacking our brain when we listen. That we are learning to hear in certain ways based on the gear we listen to.

Best,
E
erik_squires

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atmasphere
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My GF and I have no troubles conversing while playing my system.

Glare is not universal with any technology. Certainly not horns. I've heard some solid state amps that are glare-free too (considerably more rare).

Glare IME is an indication of distortion- IMD or higher ordered harmonics, both of which aren't particularly pleasant.

I like scyfy/fantasy a lot and read Aquaman comics when I was a kid but that movie sucked.
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