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Just hooked up a brand new pair of SH-50's last night and I'm in sonic nirvana with twin DTS-10 subs below 50 Hz. as determined by my AVR's Audyssey XT/32 room correction.I spent almost a year with 8 of the TD-1's, theoriginal Unity Summation Aperture horns from Sound Physics Labs, Tom Danley's original patents were based on these 40x60 degree speakers. They can butt together for wider dispersion and lower bass (they were designed to be used in pairs). When you do this, the horn mouth is twice the size and you get an octave lower bass, down to 65 Hz. BUT these SH-50 are SO much better.
The only other pair of NEW speakers I got right after college as a 23 year old.......Klipschorns. Lived with those for about 30 years until I got into the Klipsch/EV/Peavy/JBL theater stuff, culminating with my own Klipsch MWM-derived bass horn with Roy Delgado's amazing K-402 Mid Horn with the K-1133 drivers.
This Danley setup just kills everything I've ever owned in 45 years. Now the TD-1's have surround duty with a Runt (similar to SH-95) as a center voice channel for movies.
I'm hearing micro details and depth, top to bottom, like I've never experienced before, even in my latest "crappy room" with no treatments.
Tom you were/are RIGHT! Thank you for making so few compromises in the sounds your designs put into the world at large.
Now off to find more good recordings............this positive comment comes from a very happy fellow engineer/customer.
Edits: 06/17/15Follow Ups:
Hi Claude
I am back from the trade show now and am glad you're enjoying them; I have the first two prototypes for my home system as well and couldn't go back to normal speakers.
The radiation from a single point in time and space with constant directivity makes a significant difference in the home but the larger the speaker system gets, the more drivers are used, the greater the difference it makes in preserving the recorded information.
Here are a couple large "hifi's" that use the Synergy Horns in place of line arrays, if you have headphones hooked up to your computer, take a listen;
https://www.dropbox.com/s/oyosfc3adc6j1du/20130723135350.mts?dl=0
at 700 feet;
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ykq1y2ugesok2se/20130723141759.mts?dl=0
at 600 feet;
https://www.dropbox.com/s/tnsw5mb4v5vdlwq/20120726122124.mts?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/0u58zsinsz1gd4j/20140805114837.mts?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/mxa64hkkhkk07vj/20140805133848.mts?dl=0
Best,
Tom
Danley Sound Labs
Seems to me, in simple terms, Synergy Horns scale up very well to Jet Engine decibel level while maintaining similar sound characteristics.
Make me want to become an outdoor party DJ, just so I can jump in the crowd and dance to my favorite music.
Rock on!
Tom,What are you using for subs with the SH-50's? and how many? Wall or corner location?
Edits: 06/24/15
Hi
In my old living room which was narrow, I had the cabinet walls hard up against the room walls to eliminate side wall reflections and part way forward from the back wall so that the right speaker was aimed at the left most seat on the couch and vis versa.
This provided a much better and wider stereo image than 4 inch sonex on the room walls to absorb the reflections.
Now I have a goofy shaped irregular wide room and while I retained the kitty corner aiming, they are positioned so that the couch is the center of an equilateral triangle.
For subs, I have two bare wood prototype TH-50's on their sides. These are more than I need (a couple Imax theaters use 4) although it makes a few recordings a lot of fun and at some point I will make something else. If it wasn't silly and huge, I would like to try a pair of BC218's, I have heard these outdoors with sh-50's and they were fun and solid to the lower 20's.
Best,
Tom
Well, it must be nice to be able to create all these great high power output transducers for living as entertainment tools for the masses and make a living doing it. Not to mention the ability to also have them as "fun toys" in the process.
Does anyone know if there have been different versions or design upgrades to the SH50 over time?
I don't know. This is my first pair after many TD-1's, which got me halfway there, now I'm all the way there.
The only thing that would come close might be the SH-60, which uses more, smaller midrange drivers, but has the same specs with wider angle, which, for my crappy room with a 6'10" ceiling, might have not been a better choice. But for others, maybe it would be.
I'm rediscovering all of my favorite music.......micro details and scary dynamics, but with better bass extension down to my DTS-10's at 50 Hz, something I didn't get with the TD-1.
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The Mind has No Firewall~ U.S. Army War College.
Congratulations! These are great speakers.
Frode
i really like your stands. Where did you get those?
Was just going to ask the same thing when I saw that picture. Awesome!
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"When Khruschev said "we will bury you" I don't think he meant with surplus parts." zacster
They are made by Towersonic. Adjustable between 28 1/4" and 48". Nice, but expensive. I paid around 1500$ including shipping.
Frode
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Thanks for sharing. Can you tell us how muc these cost?
Yes, about 8 kilobucks and change for a pair delivered to my door via free shipping for 338 lb. pallet.
Mine are White not black. Looks less commercial.
I'd like to know as well
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