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In the Forum: Horn-Loaded Speakers
In the Thread: ... again on GOTO Unit drivers...
Post Subject: Musicality and details: a quest for a friendly audio experiencePosted by twogoodears on: 8/29/2008
Hi Romy:
as I don't consider the thread as emptied, yet, I'd wish to add some thoughts after more days of listening to my system.
I re-read an half-page chapter in French from Jean Hiraga's "Les Hautparleur" essay, concerning time-alignement and phase... in this quite misconsidered and often unconcerned parameter, I more and more carefully weighted Hiraga's words, where he says that in horns time-alignement you, I simplify to be better understood, you must go "fractal" - i.e. 1/2 inch plus a salt grain;-) because it's not simply a matter of phisically aligning the diaphragms of, say, tweeter, mid and woofer, but "finding" the "fractal" point where you hear the best, most natural sound in yr. VERY system.
I only recently began to move drivers and horns and, while only some weeks ago, I was positioning speakers/ways in an aesthetically/functional (due to weight and bulkiness) way - like 98 percent of people worldwide using these speakers, now I almost only use ears... now I feel as I did "before" like audio shops owners back in '70s when they applied their coolness with those silly "waves" on equalizers on the shelves to impress young audio lovers!!!
The actual "best sound" from my system appears wrong on the paper: as I already pointed out... wrong wall - the longer one, the mid-low horn is almost sitting on the floor and not suspended on the ceiling or on-top of a bass enclosure, the mid-high is half-way between mid-low mouth and driver and the tweeter is, vertically, between S-150 and S-400 horns, looking at side looking like a reversed "S"...
I noticed in another GAC's thread http://www.goodsoundclub.com/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=6119 the BMS's and LeCleach/Concrete mid horns and tweeter was in the classic "hardcore", exagerated diaphragm/time aligning and wonder if what Jean Hiraga's hinted in his book was/is always an issue, something to be explored in our quiet houses, more than in a overcrowded room at an audio fair...Rerurn to Romy the Cat's Site