Re: horniness - Bruce from DC

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Re: horniness

Posted by Bruce from DC (B) on September 29, 2001 at 08:39:48

In Reply to: Re: "new technology" posted by Tom Brennan on September 29, 2001 at 03:58:58:

pardon the pun

Yeah, tom; I don't claim to have surveyed the horn universe. I guess what I was thinking was that PWK built speakers that were sized and intended for your living room, which leaves out a lot of pro stuff, like Altec VOT, and some of the stuff in the pictures on your web site.

Unfortunately, for horns "size matters" and some of us are stuck making compromises as a result -- one of which, in my case, is listening at average levels of no more than about 85 db, measured with the Rat Shack meter.

It seems like from your comments on your site, you would agree with me about Avantgarde's practice of essentially strapping a low-midrange horn to a conventional box subwoofer and calling it a "horn" speaker.

Personally, if I had a room with free corners, it would be fun to get a pair of K-horns and see what could be done in the way of tweaking them by damping the mid and tweet horn with putty, re-doing the crossover, etc.

Ah, well. Some other time. . .

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Topic - Dunlavy types vs new technology - jeremy 12:42:31 09/27/01 (14)

Re: Dunlavy types vs new technology - David Aiken 00:36:42 09/29/01 (0)

Re: "new technology" - Bruce from DC 16:17:23 09/28/01 (3)

Re: "new technology" - Tom Brennan 03:58:58 09/29/01 (2)

Re: horniness - Bruce from DC 08:39:48 09/29/01 (1)

Re: horniness - oitzman 17:54:32 10/02/01 (0)

Re: Dunlavy types vs new technology - Peter 12:03:16 09/28/01 (0)

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Re: Dunlavy types vs new technology - LarryI 15:09:39 09/27/01 (2)

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Re: Dunlavy types vs new technology - Brian A 14:04:21 09/27/01 (2)

Re: Dunlavy types vs new technology - jeremy 14:56:26 09/27/01 (1)

Re: Dunlavy types vs new technology - Brian A 16:21:42 09/27/01 (0)

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Re: horniness - oitzman 17:54:32 10/02/01 (0)

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