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In the Forum: Horn-Loaded Speakers
In the Thread: Omni-directional 'horny' speaker from RAAL

Post Subject: Raal @ RMAF 2008Posted by serenechaos on: 10/14/2008

Hard to comment on this one...
Seems like most everyone I talked to there hears with their eyes, and thought they were beautiful sculpture, therefore sounded wonderful...
Maybe I should just be honest and say I flat didn't like the sound.
Adrian explains the whys pretty well, and that's very much what they sound like to me.

Very much like MBLs (as would be expected...)
And in a small room (and they were playing them LOUD any time I was near, and all kinds of junk--Prince, country western...) Resonated the walls pretty badly. Hard to listen to.
Indistinct image, lose track of where things are,

Good: good dynamics, would play very loud without compressing, "open" sound if you like that kind of thing.
I just don't like the omni, dipole, bipole, or open baffle sound.
Yes, other than the phase difference, I put them in the same "Sound family" as dipoles; and went directly from the Raal exhibit to the Linkwitz Orion exhibit to verify my feeling...
Same indistinct, blurred sound from secondary sound bouncing around the room the reaching the ears with a noticable delay, even more noticable than the back loaded horn delay.
Robert

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