MusicLover, trust me, John know everything that need to be know about the measurement procedure and it would be rely funny if you would examine him about it. BTW, what did you mean the “horn system in question”. Are you talking about my own installation? The sweep is in “My pPayback “ section of my site. Frankly speaking it might be even more linear if I wish but I have much more advanced demands for the speaker measurements then juts the plane-vanila linearity.

MusicLover wrote:

I dont think ROmy actually did any design, he just bought components and put them together. Did he actually design the horn?

MusicLover, you might discover eventually that we are the masters of out own playbacks and that we fully responsible for the design of our listing rooms. I might presume that if I ship my playback ‘as is” to you then you would still have the difficulties with linearity of response. :-) What I am trying to say that until you personally take charge, control and responsibility for the way how your installation performs then “you will spend the rest of your feline life swapping amps”.. :-)

MusicLover wrote:

I'll ignore the rst of your post, since its clear you have strong opinions, but don't seem to have much experience with sound reproduction.

Well, what might be described as an “experience with sound reproduction”? I feel that experience is a predictable ability to deliver a predictable result as a targeted level of demands. From this perspective John has quite a lot of experience. In fact if you decided to move form the Altec "coca-cola cans" to the real horns then you might learn that John is in a very unique position: he could deliver a stable predictable result at the level of demands that way suppresses any another known to me horn makers. I wish you luck to find somebody more skillful and  knowledgeable vendor with completely suppressed ego.

As personal note, I might say that I was introduced to John very accidentally and was attracted by his certain horno-radicalism. For the years when I was talking with different people about horns I was feeling that no mater now bug Moron I was but still actually was  in a position to teach those people about the subject. With John it was very nice “click” as many of my own visions that I considered imperative for a properly sounding horn installations were fully embraced and enriched by the John’s horn making experience. I think, your conclusion that  he has not much experience with sound reproduction require…  I would say ...a lot of equalization on your side….

Rgs,
Romy the caT

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