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In Reply to: RE: And yet... posted by morricab on October 08, 2014 at 03:27:58
Horns have always been problematic for me, yes they can sound amazing and dynamic but in general you have to select your source material carefully.
The beauty of the Vivid's is that they sound good on everything.
Every time I play a recording I did not hear before I am amazed.
They are source friendly and perfect for a music lovers.
Did you hear the recent Giya's versions with the new crossover??
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the 2 way vivid are on my list of must listen. Ill try to ahve a audition and compare them with AN J
I think that it was John Marks from Stereophile that said on this forum
that these Oval Vivid speakers where the most coherent speakers he heard.
I don't know for sure but since I heard them again this year I would guess so. Dont get me wrong, I think the Vivids are beating most conventional speakers out there in that class like YG, Magico, Wilson, Kharma etc. I just simply was much much much more impressed with the horn systems I have heard recently...like the designers really got it together. They just sound more like a live event to me and I come from a long line of planar speakers where transparency and coloration are much lower than with most speakers. I am very sensitive to it so and used to hate a lot of the horns I heard as a result.
Listen to Odeon, Living Voice, Acapella and some others and you start to wonder how dynamic speakers ever took hold. I just got (another) pair of Odeons (I had some small ones in the past and liked very much what they did). Big ones that are a fully horn loaded 2-way. 98db and VERY coherent sounding. A friend of mine just picked up a pair of Living Voice Air Scouts (105db!) but I haven't heard them yet...very curious.
The new crossover ads 1.5 db efficiency, so on the leaflet it says that the 2's are 91 db's which I personally do not believe as my previous speakers where 91 db's and according to my amp I need to ad 4db to get to the same volume level.
The only horn speakers I am very familiar with are the Italian made Zingali's range which look beautiful and did sound excellent on some music but too uneven to live with them. We kept them in the shop where I worked thus know them very well. I also built a pair using Lowther drivers many years ago, but again the sound quality was too erratic.
Oh I am also familiar with the Rethm but again not for me.
So my experience is limited I never heard a horn design I could live with.
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