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In the Forum: Horn-Loaded Speakers
In the Thread: Making it sing...
Post Subject: Re: "as is".Posted by skushino on: 7/7/2005
 Romy the Cat wrote:
Ok, can you in subjective trims describe what do you feel is wrong with your sound. disregard the speakers and channels, tell juts your pure reaction to what it is.

The cat


Romy, I now see you were asking a totally different question.  But, I'm still not fully understanding your meaning.  This thread was originally written for input about bringing a pile of horns, drivers and wires to life, to make it sing and come alive.  They are Bruce's product, but not fully his, because it differs from his stock product.  He did not assume full ownership and responsibility of the design, and consequently I feel like I took delivery of an incomplete product.  After my initial order, it took 7 months to finally receive all the parts from Bruce.  During that time, he listened to the new drivers for an hour or two, in one afternoon, and then shipped them to me.  He was probably tired of talking to me everyday for two months, asking him when he was going to ship.  He basically said "Scott, I am not familiar with this driver, and I made a crossover you can start with.  You might want to do further work yourself."  I'm kind of paraphrasing him, but that was the general message.

My goal was to retain the best of the sound from my old speakers, which I enjoyed in many ways, and also gain a freer sense of dynamics.  Not so much loud and soft, but the ability to move quickly and gracefully from soft to loud and back again.  First and foremost, I wanted to "do no harm" to my exisiting sound.  I want to retain the gentle, round shape of notes, even when music is violent (I think you describe this as the slope of transition?) and the wonderful sense of acoustical space they (old speakers) are capable of.  The biggest problem was a sense of constricted dynamics.  Not bad per se, but still kind of constipated-sounding, that sucked energy and life out of music, whether large or small scale.  What else to expect with 87dB speakers!

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