I constantly contacted by the visitor of my site and some people that I know me in my none-internet life inquiring me who could build horns. Ironically, despite the simplicity of the task, if a person has a clear idea what he is willing to accomplish I his horn then s/he has is insultingly limited number of masters who could accommodate custom requirements and to build the horns at the demanding level of quality. Most of the horn makers try to make the cookie-cuter horns, unfortunately not the best cookie-cuter horns…. What is more unpleasant is that when a customer has some specific requirements that do not comply with the manufacturers cookie-cuter visions then the manufacturers begin to load on the customers all imaginable BS, deception and lying trying to convince the customer that the customer own vision should not be even considered.

So, who cold build the real tailored horns? Please post names, contact information or if you are a horn builder then please direct advertise here. If this thread gets some useful listing then I intend to map the thread at the site “Knowledge Tree”

Rgs,
Romy the caT

There is a US company “Acoustic Horn Company” somewhere in ... , that makes, as I understand, only metal conical horns.  The company, owner Bill Woods presents his motto as “Horns based on the quality and lost engineering of the past”. I always thought that “engineering of past” is a bogus marketing phrase as “engineering of today” or “engineering of future”. As far as I concern there is the only one correct engineering – the one that delivers a demanded result...

Nevertheless, the purpose of this thread is not to overview the horn makers but to innumerate their availability. Therefore Bill Woods’ “Acoustic Horn Company” is welcome to the list.

http://www.acoustichorn.com/

The Cat

Martinelli Sound is US based hornmaker. It offers small HF and MF rectangular but semi-nicely rounded horns, hoverer, as I understand they are opened for custom solutions as well. I did not see Martinelli Sound’s making a big splash among horn enthusiasts but the “big splash” usually comes from large and “compromise-effective” horn installations but not from glorified boxes with complimentary horns.  I hope Martinelli Sound find a right customer who will be wiling to pay for more serious horns. Perhaps it will be you…

http://www.woodhorn.com/

there is also

http://www.kbrooksaudio.net/custom.html

http://www.hornfabrik-eder.de/

angelo

Gregm wrote:

There's also a Belgian called Phil Mundi here: http://users.pandora.be/philmundi/index.html  Don't know much more about him.

http://www.goodsoundclub.com/Copyright.aspx

If anyone is close to this guy, please, ask him to cease using my graphic.

jessie.dazzle wrote:

Since I speak French, and since I deal with plagiarism everyday, and since NOTHING pisses me off more, I phoned Phil Mundi to ask him about the unothorized use of your artwork on his site, and if this act was representative of the level of fidelity one could expect of his products. It took him a while to get his mind around the fact that i am simply a person who reads this forum, and not the webmaster of the site. Anyway, he of course denied knowing of your site, and of course suggested that he was the originator of the art work. He could not understand my interest in calling his attention to this unotherized use of material, asking why I should care. I explained that it was indicative of questionable ethics, and that I am likely not the only one reaching this conclusion. All this seemed to irritate him, as he made clear that he had no intention of changing the artwork. At this point I confirmed that I was wasting my time (as he quite incorrectly suggested I was also wasting his). Lest I waste the time of anyone else, I will stop here saying only that it is not unrealistic to assume that one could likely expect the same level of fidelity in a product made by this ass. Monsieur Mundi, souhaitez-vous vous expliquer ? jd*

Jessie, take for taking your time to do it. It was amassing that Phil Mundi insisted that he was the originator of the art work. Anyhow, I gave a call to him and although he did not speak English well, your Jessie call made the conversation understandable for him. It looks like he promised to remove the banners and do not use it. Yes, it is not a comitial site but it is not only about ego. I am not a painter and I did spend quite substantial amount efforts to crated and to implement that banner, mimicking the center image after the Dallin’s “Appeal to the Great Spirit”

http://www.goodsoundclub.com/TreeItem.aspx?PostID=77

Anyhow, I apologies for taken the thread out of subject. It looks like the case is closed and I took the redirection for the Belgium  visitors to the Phil’s “fame” page. Let us return to the horn-makers.

Very interesting company and their GAMMA model looks very promising.

http://www.cessaro-horn-acoustics.com/gamma.html

It is essentially the very same Macondo idea - as I told when you go for 4-5 ways horn loaded installation then there are not a lot of room for variation and the design pretty much flows from what it is. It would be very interesting the listen the thing. The sound of the GAMMA will largely depends from the quality of the drivers they use and the ways in witch everything is implemented. Few things I noted - they position the MF channel above the HF channel.  This is very interesting because it informs about their crossover points.  Another thing is angling of lower MF horn. I wonder if it is a fix angle as the sharpness of the angle will vary with the listening distance, otherwise some changes in crossover will be required - I might be too complicated for an average customer at the filed to figure out the exact delay time…

Anyhow, this Cessaro Horn Acoustics “at glance” looks very interesting and very promising… If someone at east coast gets the largest Cessaro inhalation I would defiantly go to listen…

Maybe it has some interest but:

- Backloaded bass horns
- 2" midrange driver with Beryllium membrane
- 1" tweeter with Beryllium membrane
- 0.5" super-tweeter "a la beryllium"

sounds quite worrying to me.

Nothing is said about the upperbass channel driver, nor the crossovers. Just 108dB/w/m of sensivity, that's the most interesting point.

No price point mentioned, just to "aware" they mention the 2" berillium midrange driver costs 2000 euros/unit. Kind of marketing BS.

Maybe worth an audition if you live close to them, but I wouldn't be travelling to Germany. Would you? ;-)