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I have a lot of places within my site where I, in one or other way, spread propaganda about horn-loaded loudspeakers. Frankly speaking, if I were an “ordinary audiophile” then I would look at the Romy the Cat’s exuberance about horns and perceive it as a typical preoccupation of an audio-Moron about something the he have happened to have in his room - I perfectly understand the sentiments of that vision. The problem is that an “ordinary audiophile” has no knowledge and NO EXPERIENCE with a properly bult horn-loaded installation and therefore for the horns there is no entry points into the “ordinary audiophile awareness”.

There are no seriously performing commercially available horn-loaded loudspeakers, period.  Even in you go for the outragesly expensive systems or for the outragesly vintage systems then they all have severe problems and they all were NOT PROPERLY DESIGNED AND IMPLEMENTED. I know ALL commercially manufactured models and I can testify that by auditioning them you expose to very remote result from what it might be.

The home-bult horn systems are also very-very pitiable. The low sensibility of the DIYers, thier severely primitive reference points, lacking of suitable public knowledge about horns practice, shortage really useful and well performing components, severe ignorance/insufficiency of horn-vendors, absents of serious collaborative horn- framework and many other factors created a satiation where DIYers bult completely foolish, pitifully performing systems, replicating each other misstates and archiving very poor Sound.

There are very few people out there (I would VERY optimistically estimate a couple/few-dozens around the world) who have sensibility, knowledge, recourses, seriousness of objectives and who brings horn insulations at the point where the performance of the systems can actually indicate the REAL capacity of the horns. However, usually those people do not associated with the crowd of the “ordinary audiophiles” and therefore the “ordinary audiophiles” or the industry freaks never had a chance to the experience to the REAL horn sound.

So, when the “ordinary audio people” or the industry’s hoodlums express thier attitude toward to the “horn universe” then I perfectly understand their “evidences” and reasoning.

Rgs,
Romy the Cat

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