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In Reply to: RE: T.H.E. Show Speaker report, and excess opinionated rants posted by DrChaos on June 09, 2016 at 16:18:14
Enjyed the report.
Many of the speakers were not at Axpona which I attended. Some I did hear we agree on. I liked the Sanders & MBL a lot. The Thrax, Lyra, was an amazing stand mount and I think if you had a better demo you would enjoy them. I also like the Revel Ultima models, I liked the Performa 2 but not overly excited on the Performa 3. Indeed, the Elac was crazy good for the price.
Just curious if you've heard the JBL Synthesis, and, if so, do you apply the same horn criticism? We could disagree here, LOL
Oh, Emerald Physics I heard, I really liked the technology but I did hear a medrange abnormality. I noticed it on a familiar vocal. I heard it as I was walking out though and attributed it to being off axis or room issue. Now, I have to believe my ears.
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| Just curious if you've heard the JBL Synthesis, and, if so, do you apply the same horn criticism? We could disagree here, LOL
Not this time, but I remember just a little bit from the previous year.
And I would 100% not apply the criticism to JBL waveguides. Given what I know of their seriousness in such matters I bet it would be awesome and awesomely expensive.
As a physicist, the notion of horns is appealing, increasing the acoustic coupling from driver to air ('impedance matching') but I think it is more difficult to implement and may require some serious scientific testing & understanding to do it very well.
and generally not a fan of horn designs either, here is one design that I think has the best potential. Danley horns employ all drivers radiating from a single "mouth" using controlled directivity. Naturally, that allows for using arrays of their synergy horn products (of which there are many).
Danley Sound Labs SH50
and I love the attention to acoustics... Place your woofers and midranges in an enclosed cavity and have the sound radiate out a relatively small "port hole" in the side of the horn? How can that sound good?!? Acoustics! and Tom looking
It is all about coherent waveform propagation.
As a full range electrostatic planar owner you know that...
"The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat" - Confucius
I agree, I would count that one along with JBL as high potential
Many of the Synthesis are in the Studio 2 price range or less, then, of course, you have the Everest that do reach up there a bit.
JBL usually brings K2s and Everests to shows. Both really are horn speakers using compression drivers.
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