- Posted by JoMoCo (A) on March 31, 2009 at 19:59:14
Has anyone taken a good look at the horn on the Latour? Care to comment?
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Has anyone taken a good look at the horn on the Latour? Care to comment?
Im an ESL guy but more recently have added horns to my entourage..What I have noticed it the shindo field coil speaker system was reviewed by a quad ESL 57 fan and he claims the shindo have much of the ESL character along with dynamics.
In my experience the Latour is the first speaker to get everything truly right. Midrange performance and top to bottom coherence like a Quad 57, dynamics like a Altec theater system, scale of a live performance and detail retrieval like nothing else I've heard. A friend of mine said it best when hearing the Latour for the first time "These speakers have a way of sorting out the information in a laid back, non fatiguing, detailed and musically coherent way" I could go on and on about it's virtues but you know all the adjectives and yes it does them all! Hearing the Latour is a true revelation... goose bump factor is off the charts.
If the power supply waveform isn't pretty,neither is the sound in most cases.
This horn design was originally built by Westrex in England in the 1950s. The subject has been discussed in several threads on the Lansing Heritage forums. Here is a link to a list of the relevant threads:
Steve, Thanks for the info links, have you heard or tested one of these before? Anything special about how this horn design distributes sound? I suspect that a good field coil contributes to making any horn sound better but other than their scarcity therefore exclusiveness is there any merit above other horn designs? Are the Shindo's version original or reproductions? Hmmmm.....
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