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In the Forum: Horn-Loaded Speakers
In the Thread: Horn length/expansion/group delay

Post Subject: Some ramblingPosted by jamikl on: 10/18/2010

This may not be the right place. I am always emotionally involved with the music I listen to. Sometimes there is
a quality to it that makes tears stream down my face - not matter what gendre of music or whether it is sad or happy.
This subject was done to death by the main contributor to the Silbatone Aporia thread. So my dissatisfaction with what I
hear is not I think emotional. On most music I listen to my very average gear is OK but loses it as the complexity of
the music increases.

The above may be why a great number of people do not like classical music or opera. I could not stand them either when
listened to in the old days on a transistor tabletop radio. A flat jumble of sound with no connection to me. As my gear got better
I found that I could enjoy and perhaps understand this music more. I will also include organ music in that. I began to appreciate
what is going on I think.

Now I have reached a stage where I am wanting to be IN the music somehow. Involved. Hear the intent of the piece. The gear
I have prevents this as it doesn't discriminate enough - if you understand me. I hear resonances which stop me following lines played
by instruments. I notice that there is still a mish mash of sound- even though somehow more enjoyable than the old radio-when many
groups of instruments are playing different parts or even the same part. I cannot really get into what is going on. This starts to
happen with a jazz big band- say a Duke Ellington tone poem and continues on up as the music becomes more complex. It is OK with
small groups and chamber music. The resonances in the system are always a problem.

Several years ago I had a part horn system-not following your ideas-but still horn and I liked what happened when I listened through it.
Circumstances change and I don"t live in my own house or use my own gear. I can't modify or clutter this house but I do have time. You
showed a German system, can't remember the name - something gamma. There were smaller versions of that which may work here and
the idea I think is to build it one unit at a time and listen.
jamikl

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