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In Reply to: RE: T.H.E. Show Speaker report, and excess opinionated rants posted by Mr Peabody on June 10, 2016 at 12:54:23
| 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.
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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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