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In the Forum: Horn-Loaded Speakers
In the Thread: Canadian Speaker Proposal

Post Subject: Knowledge TreePosted by de charlus on: 6/25/2013

Dear N-set,

I do not set out to copy Romy's speaker installation for a number of reasons, foremost among which is that I have not heard it. I'm sure that it sounds excellent in his room and with his ancillaries, but since mine are/will be different, I don't believe that there's any reason to suppose that Romy's system would be optimum for my environment, tastes etc.

Yes, this will be my first attempt at having such a system constructed, a system which will be put together more or less as Romy asserts in his post above. The reason that I do not simply buy a commercial system is that I have yet to find a single system that contains all the virtues I believe should exist in the accurate reproduction of orchestral and other music; I've heard several examples of excellence in one thing or another, but the whole package has proven to be spread over several systems. My proposal was to more or less combine the drivers from said systems in a single system, structurally similar to the Cessaro Gamma - since the spherical horns are vertically and time-aligned, this blueprint suits me above most others - but voiced for the listening room and ancillaries that I will be putting together. Of course, I now realize how much more there is to the issue than I had at first supposed, but this is all to the good since I had not anticipated the scale of the learning opportunity before me.

Yes, I well recognize that I'm utterly unequal to constructing such a system unaided, which is why I've elected to delineate my desires, form a few ideas as to how those desires might be realized, run such ideas before more experienced persons better suited to judge them, and then pass the affair to Jeffrey Jackson, or someone of similar stature and experience, to put them into practice. I do wish to involve myself as much as possible, since i see this as a stimulating intellectual exercise which will pay dividends of great pleasure for many years to come, both in the refinement of the system and in the music which will issue forth; however, I do understand my limitations, which is why I always accepted the need for third-party design and craftsmanship. And no, I do not find your questions insulting; they are questions that I myself have had to answer before setting out on the odyssey, and if it does end up taking years, then so be it; years of intriguing experiments with sound will render this an "end of life" project in additional senses.

Thank you for the post, and thank you, Romy, for all the interesting information that you have thus far provided; this thread has already proven to be a veritable font of information, and promises yet more.

de Charlus

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