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Problems with horns: upper bass
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Posted by
Kerry Brown
on: 3/27/2005
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Antonio,
Bruce Edgar sells an excellent all front-loading horn system, the Titan, which works well in small rooms. He will sell you unfinished horns, and you can find/buy the drivers yourself if you are a DIY guy, or on a budget. Considering the current exchange rate, you could get a real good deal even with shipping.
The Titan is not a perfect speaker system ( you can tweak it endlessly ) but the performance/price ratio is very very good, compared to any other high performance speaker system ( I think the Edgar seismic subwoofer is the greatest bargain in audio ). Basically, Bruce is the only guy out there making/selling proper front-loading horn systems with high quality drivers... and the price is right ( regardless of ' high ' price quotes online etc. ).
IMO you should forget about Avantgarde. I am told their demos sound really good lately, but their prices are obscene.
I am a barbarian, of course, with unrefined taste, but my tweaked Edgarhorn system sounds very good ( to my uneducated ears/brain ) in my 17' x 15' room. I have a 10' semi-cathedral style ceiling which helps, but I think the horns would work even in small rooms with regular 8' flat ceilings.
The Titan mid bass/upper bass speakers are loaded by folded horns. I use Edgar's 100 Hz straight horns though, and I like them very much. They are too short and the throats are too big but they sound great.
Bruce says his folded upper bass horns work much better though - and he's usually right... he's almost always correct actually, in my experience. And he cares about doing things right... he's not laughing up his sleeve at suckers... like many " high end " designers/manufacturers. He's not a shark.
Kerry
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