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guy sergeant wrote:

I feel you may be doing John Attwood a disservice here. There are two reviews of this book. The first one which you quote extensively from appears to have been written by Lynn Olson. The second, much shorter review is John Attwoods. While he does agree with LO's conclusions, you should really direct your assessments of the review towards Lynn Olson. It seems he is the one who has been spending too much time with the 'rednecks' at AA!

Yes, know I understand that John Attwood posted on behave of Lynn Olson but it changes little the fundamentals of that article. My primary dissatisfaction was not with the people but with the fault that they express? Lynn Olson, the Vacuum Tube Valley Technical Editor, should know better then write bogus comments, dipping them into semi-technical souse. Ah, Alteck such a bad speakers!!! Probably it is because the gravity of the Moon affects the force of the suspension of the speaker diaphragm. Ah, my beloved Lowther or Jordan drivers in paper-masher back loaded enclosures with the wings on the side that I call horn sound like crap, presumably all the rest horns sound the same and the reasons are the mouth reflections, infinite length, standing-waves and chain reaction of the empty phrases in my head…  Ah, I put a compression driver inside of a Coca-Cola can and it sound not as good as it should be. Probably it is because the compression idea of the driver is the faulty one… I can go on and on mucking them what it the point. The point would be: learn how to make the horn to sound good and TNEN critique this type of the loudspeakers as a class…

What is an expert? It is a person who is familiar with subject.  How well Lynn Olson is familiar with the subject of horn if even in his writing he brings very controversial evidences and examples? I remember what Stereophile open it’s forums John Atkinson came up in there with the very similar allegation toward the horns. There is no horn lobby in the industry and John Atkinson feel free run his mouth with whatever foolishness he would like to. If tomorrow Wilson Audio or anyone else who pays his morgridge would realize well performing horns to the public then suddenly the none-existing theories of the horns operation would be favoriteably switched toward the opposite direction.

What it all boils down? It boils down to the fact that Lynn Olson, Earl Geddes and presumably John Attwood have very little knowledge and real world experience with the world of properly made horns. However, give that most of their customers are in the very same boat they chose to ridicule horns in order to sell this loudspeakers. What they do basically is following: Did you try to eat shit? It does not taste well, doesn’t it? OK, get instead of shit our new provolone and ham sandwich… I’m sure that there are a lot of AA-level readers who would love to love that sandwich. It looks like Lynn Olson and John Attwood were among them….

Rgs,
Romy the Cat

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