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In the Thread: Magico: Robert Harley’s upperbass mouth.

Post Subject: UngainlyPosted by steverino on: 1/12/2014

I am certainly far from an expert on horns but one look at the speaker certainly left an impression of ill proportions. Usually that means DSP to solve it. Am I wrong in thinking that could be guessed just from the picture? This stuff has so many non sequiturs that it becomes obvious these are just businessmen separating rich fools from their money. On those terms it will probably be a success. I thought DSP was needed mainly with a very small (lifestyle) speaker.

Seven or eight years ago when I was still getting TAS, they ran a short article about a rich audiophile in the SF Bay area who had bought a warehouse and fixed it up and installed a prototype full horn system - I mean with a bass horn that was a horn, not a woofer. From the picture they ran it was simply enormous. Does anyone remember that article? The article was the typical puff piece so it was not easy to figure out the technical issues from it. But it was impressive looking. Obviously I got no idea how it really sounded. Never heard anything more about it.

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