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In the Forum: Horn-Loaded Speakers
In the Thread: The most interesting horn ideas to me so far
Post Subject: Looking for best horn valuesPosted by SearcherOfBetterSound on: 5/11/2007
Not too many of the cheaper horns have really interested me so far, but I think that we here should help others with this as it could better help them have some horns and horn interest in general. I haven't payed too much attention to much models at all recently, but Zingali looks worth checking out. At first, their design sort of turned me off, like it could be problematic (I don't know enough to better explain why I feel it, but maybe I'm thinking the dynamic capabilities of horns would vibrate that smallish looking cabinet too much and there wouldn't be enough air, along with any possible problems with the horn and drivers), but that made me not pay attention to their possible potential. Now that I think about it, they don't seem as "industry-ish" now as they might appear to be somewhat at first. Cheap horns are rare and popular in such a way that it's mostly the more independent looking models that are popular for cheapness, besides Klipsch or Tannoy. Zingali have sort of this technical standard-look thing that makes it more interesting to me than a lot of the other cheaper horns I've seen out there...too many are too full-range based or just..whatever. I don't know, but these don't really look that bad in a way...they probably fit in pretty nicely in like a...say, the "industry trinity" of Klipsch, Tannoy, Zingali. Still...I'm unsure on the desirability of those 3, and in comparison with other companies..it can be hard to tell, but now I know at least when it comes to reference, that there's also an around $5,000 point for reference instead of "just" $10,000. I recommend anyone who's considering horns on the market to try to stick around these prices instead of going much higher when it comes to reference, unless you want too..it can depend.
The weird looking designs of Classic Audio Reproductions sort of turned me off (but it could be said the opposite too) because I've never seen much things like it, and they might've seen too "vintage-ish", but now I'm starting to see the light of their plan better. I would consider their T-5 for reference..it's their lowest priced one I think, for around $6,500. So far I could say that this could be the most overall desirable horn speaker for me. Just because the price is lower than other models I've considered, that's already enough to make me not care as much if the more expensive speakers were better...that's like $5,000 I could contribute to a turntable, transport, DAC, amp.
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