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General speaker questions for audio and home theater.

HORN!

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Horns and single driver speakers like the Lowther variants do have one or two drawbacks.

One is SIZE. To extract bass down to only 50Hz (does not even cover the entire range of the Fender electric bass) it takes a speaker double the size of a floorstander like ProAc 1.5, which though smaller goes down an octave lower, to repro down to 50Hz.

A small stand mount speaker could go down to 50Hz.

Nowadays we have bass players with 5 string basses that go down to 32Hz. To get that low a horn speaker will have to be truly GIGANTIC!

The other thing aside from size and limited bass and the problem of citing the speaker in a domestic space is that horns love to be played loud. Very loud.

Horns like most other speakers have a 'sweet spot' in terms of their volume level where they sound their best. And this tends to be overwhelmingly loud at times.

If going for the absolute in terms of dynamic scale there really is no
compromise but to get horn speakers. That is if you demand or NEED your sound system to be played at (rock, classical or jazz) concert volume every time you listen to music. Imagine Led Zeppelin rehearsing in your room full tilt every night and you'll get why the horn speaker dynamic and volume realism can be both it's finest and worst attribute!

Some horns are absolutely astonishing in this regard. But they aren't cheap.


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