kosst_amojan
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| Horn based loudspeakers why the controversy? @atmasphere Yes. There is the theory and there is the practice. I would also agree with your assessment of distortion and dynamics. I've long said that truly high fidelity allows for listening at very high volume without a sense of real loudness a... | |
| high frequency intermittent noise I'm not sure where this 700-800 MHz figure came from, but LTE bands usually operate up in the 1.7 - 2.4 GHz region. @atmasphere Nelson is good indeed. Maybe I shouldn't be surprised the F5 is resistant to that kind of interference. It's all resist... | |
| Horn based loudspeakers why the controversy? @analogluvr Yeah, I'd say it is an oversimplification. It takes into no account gain of an amp. The kinds of dynamic compression you're talking about would be glaringly apparent, but the reality doesn't seem to reflect that. The funny thing about ... | |
| Focal Treo6 - Be / Powered - Ultimate Apt. Speakers? Last I checked those have been out a few years unless I'm thinking of a very similar monitor. I was whining to a friend of mine about the gaping hole in their monitor line up, and then they came out with the Shape line! Kanta style F cones in a sm... | |
| Horn based loudspeakers why the controversy? @analogluvr How exactly do you figure inefficient speakers can't be dynamic as all hell given robust power? That math doesn't work. Sure, many inefficient speakers are limp on account of torpid power, but there's nothing inherent preventing them f... | |
| Horn based loudspeakers why the controversy? Indeed. Zu are awesome speakers. If you have an obsession with certain kinds of amps, SETs and laterals for instance, you really need horns to get the best of those. In the rest of the world of solid state gain is very cheap and you can accomplish... | |
| Horn based loudspeakers why the controversy? @mapman My daughter's school has a large fitness center equipment with a horn loaded EV system, both mains and ceiling mounted delays, but they wisely outfitted the ceiling and various wall sections with acoustic treatments. It sounds quite decent. | |
| Horn based loudspeakers why the controversy? I don't hate horns. I personally don't have any reason to use them. It's frustrating to see horn fans insist that they're the only way to achieve certain characteristics because a) they are not, b) they're not ideal in many environments, and c) th... | |
| Soundstage and explosive dynamics? Vahes, you forgot an absolutely massive listening space and you'll get maybe so-so imaging, which the OP stipulated. | |
| Can a Quality Full Range Speaker be the Limiting Component in a system? Sometimes I wonder if people deeply steeped in this hobby haven't studied the trees for so long that they forgot they're in a forest. Given all the variety in speakers, space demands, and people's tastes, any speaker could be a bottleneck in the w... | |
| Soundstage and explosive dynamics? @analogluvr A lot of listeners and designers consider confined dispersion a characteristic to be overcome. I site modern Maggie’s, Quads, and the Magico S3 as examples of excellent imaging and broads dispersion. It’s also a characteristic of my Fo... | |
| Focal Chorus 826W with Rotel RC/RB 1070? There aren't many First Watt amps I'd pair with those speakers. They're pretty much limited to the F5. F6, and F7. All the rest are current source amps that don't play well with very reactive speakers like Focal tends to make. | |
| Focal Chorus 826W with Rotel RC/RB 1070? George is right. Robust solid state power is what those speakers like, especially class A power. I'm driving my 936's with 40 watts, but the F5 will keep doubling it's output until the outputs melt. It hardly leaves class A operation though. Focal... | |
| Focal Chorus 826W with Rotel RC/RB 1070? The 800W series isn't wildly different than the 900 series. Imaging is what they do well. I completely agree with the statement about class A power. I've got a First Watt F5 clone powering my 936's and they do exploit the quality of better power. ... | |
| Soundstage and explosive dynamics? I'd admit I'm wrong if I'd never heard horns in my life. I'd be quite open to your ideas, in fact. But I have heard horns. I know what they are, what they do, how they work, and why they sound like they do. I don't like them. Plenty of other peopl... |