In Reply to: long throw horn for hifi? posted by c3conv2 on August 29, 2010 at 19:28:19:
There was a time in my life, when my wife and I were working our way through college, when I was so broke I gladyly made all manner of adaptations, compensations and complications to cobble together speakers with a budget of $0.0 which sounded a little better than whatever I had been listening to before. If you find yourself in that impecunious condition and someone has given you some long throw horns I say, "go for it." It will be interesting and you will learn a lot. I have no idea whether or not you will make the horns sound good in a home system, but I wish you good luck.
A sound principle of good engineering is that it is vastly more elegant to design a machine for a particular function correctly from the beginning than to do it wrongly and then apply patches and fixes. If you can afford them there are many great hifi horns from the likes of JBL, Altec, Oris, Bruce Edgar's designs, TAD, Fostex, AzuraHorn, etc. which were designed from the beginning for high fidelity.
I dream of an America where a chicken can cross the road without having it's motives questioned.
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- RE: long throw horn for hifi? - Don Reid 08/31/1018:12:16 08/31/10 (0)