Q: What happens if Dick Cheney decided to buy loudspeakers?
A: The US Force attacks Arctic Poll, US Congress declares South California as “axis of evil”, Halliburton order from Haliaetus HA-325 speakers with 5400% mark up and re-brand them into “Horn-Liberator - You know... For Troops.”

The French company Haliaetus makes some very bogus climes about their loudspeakers:

http://www.haliaetus.com/

As far as I understand their speakers are box-reflex design with multiple ports where some kind of bogusly shaped horn attached to the ports.

The Haliaetus suggests that it “help”! I was not relay “got” how the “literature” about the rocker boosters that the French guys spread on their site has anything to do with sound. Perhaps I need to get those speakers and listen only the “Dark Side of the Moon” crap? Well, whatever….

I did not heard the Haliaetus but everything that I know about loudspeakers suggests me that the Haliaetus should be very laughable Sonic crap, worthy only for using for sound reinforcement of those "worthy" Bush speeches. You, European guys, did anyone hear the Haliaetus?

hi romy

roole number one : before critic someone's product, hear it first. these french guys did not think 5 minutes, to come to their design. they are very high skilled acoustic scientists and engeneers , and if they came to this result, there is a clou for that. certainly these guys did not think first of all abought to make a money machine, as their design is very uncommon, different, and they know how difficult to be accepted on the market. there is need exactly  people like this, who are not concerned abought to make a product, that may not be well accept, because differs too much on what a average costumer is used to see , and to buy, but want to get new solutions, find new ways , better ways of sound reproduction. i admire them. it gives the impression, that your goal is that only you have the right solution for good horn reproduction, others are only morons. i admire your skills, knowledge and experience, and learning a lot in your site, but give others more credit, as there is much more good people out there, as your feeling is.

angelo

.... the Haliaetus people did not even back-loaded their driver. If it was a horn loading then I might criticize the horn profile that they selected (and I do have quite a few arguments). However, those speakers are not horn loaded at all. They are regular bass-reflex enclosure with those horno-appendix attached to the multiple ports. With the very same success the Haliaetus “scientists” might put a crucifix into a port or stick seven candles around the speaker. Do you want to talk about the ridicule? The Haliaetus got some kind of medal form some kind of reviewing guild for “innovation”!!! Anyhow, stand by. The 6th moon guy is “composing” a review about Haliaetus. I am sure It will be fun to read it.

I always said that the only goals that audio-reviewers is to drive the perception of their readers to the level stupidity or primitivism of a given product. As an illustration here is the Srajan Ebaen’s site. They came up with the Haliaetus review… it was almost ironic that a person who is able to use Avantgarde Acoustic Duo decide to express judgment about Haliaetus:

http://www.6moons.com/audioreviews/haliaetus/firebird.html

Anyhow, I do not want even waste my time commenting on it. They invented a false, simulated problem and then they butter up the gullible audio fools with their irrelevant solution. Anyhow, whatever they do and whatever they say is out there… I read 4 paragraphs and baled out. I hope you will be able to read more.

Well, what all those audio-teenagers with their PhD tittles next to the manes are forgetting is that by designs speakers we do not design speakers but we design Sound. I do not know what qualifications or credentials those two dentist or pediatricians have to talk bout Sound but surely they said or learned nothing valuable while they were auditioning of those Haliaetus. I generally have problems when people preface own names with titles were it is not necessary (like Dr. and etc), but in the cases when people do it, while expressing bogusssnes, then I feel particularly “gratified”.

Jim Smith wrote:

Srajan's graphics are actually his own these days, afaik.  I think he and "kuma" have not collaborated for several years now.