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RE: Gordon Holt was one of the editors of High Fidelity and also Audiocraft.........

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J. Phelan

In Reply to: RE: Gordon Holt was one of the editors of High Fidelity and also Audiocraft......... posted by J. Phelan on March 13, 2014 at 16:56:20

And I was surprised to see that High Fidelity did a couple of horn reviews - in the 70s ! I thought horns were long dead by then. Klipsch ('71) and Altec ('78). I wonder if there were any more horns reviewed during that period.

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Klipsh has had the Klipschorn in continuous production for over 60 years.......... - viridian 11:40:47 03/14/14 (6)
the prototypes being dated at 1938 and limited production beginning shortly thereafter. I think that probably qualifies it as the longest continuous production piece of hi-fi gear, though it has gone through some revisions. It is clearly the same speaker that it always was though.

The Altec 19 came out around '76 and that was probably the last major stab at it that they made.

JBL has a number of recently introduced speakers with horn loaded tweeters and midranges that are a shot at the state-of-the-art. So there are still new horn based designs coming out. Volti Audio makes a Klipsch inspired line, and Pi has some nice horn loaded speakers. There are any number of horn loaded, limited production, lines coming out of Asia as well.
- RE: Klipsh has had the Klipschorn in continuous production for over 60 years.......... - Tom Brennan 05:49:15 03/15/14 (3)
  It was out of production for a time about 10 years or so ago, when the Hoosier Garage Door King owned the company. I was very active on the Klipsch forum at the time and remember this well.
  
  It seems it's never having been out of production is now part of the official company mythology.
  - Thanks for the correction Tom.............................. - viridian 08:21:21 03/15/14 (2)
    I imagine that is still probably the oldest run in audio. The Ortofon SPU cartridges have been around a long time as well, though the form factor has changed with the step-up transformers being moved out of the headshell.
    - RE: Thanks for the correction Tom.............................. - Tom Brennan 08:27:40 03/15/14 (1)
      The Altec-GPA 604 Duplex driver goes back to the mid 1940s, several years before the KHorn and the Tannoy Dual Concentric. But it was out of production for some time during the transition from Altec to Great Plains Audio.
      
      Regards
      - I look at their driver as a kind of reissue, but that may wrong Tom. nt - viridian 08:38:20 03/15/14 (0)
        
        In Reply to: RE: Thanks for the correction Tom.............................. posted by Tom Brennan on March 15, 2014 at 08:27:40
        
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- RE: Klipsh has had the Klipschorn in continuous production for over 60 years.......... - J. Phelan 14:36:50 03/14/14 (1)
  Thanks for the horn referrals - I guess Tannoy's aren't horns - but are "waveguides" with compression driver. GedLee, SP Tech, Amphion and Emerald Physics also do this (newer designs in the past decade).
  
  I wonder if J. Gordon Holt reviewed any horns in the 60s and 70s - being an (apparent) strong supporter of them.
  - Waveguides - Tom Brennan 05:56:14 03/15/14 (0)
    Waveguide is often used as a euphemism for horn, the dreaded "h word". Makes for better marketing given the prejudice many audiophiles have against horns.
    The Tannoys use the woofer cone as the treble horn, so do other coaxials such as the Radians and Beymas. I suspect the KEF LS 50 is horn loaded in the treble.
    Late in his career Holt was fond of Tannoys, large studio monitors as I recall. I think he owned some and used them at home.
    
    Edits: 03/15/14

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