In Reply to: Danley Sound Labs. posted by winslow on March 22, 2012 at 15:55:07:
I'll have to second this recommendation, even though I haven't heard the Danley SH-60 (i.e., with ~60 degrees of constant coverage). The advantage of Tannoy designs are co-axial midrange/tweeter frequencies, but the disadvantage is direct-radiator drivers - which result in a lot of AM distortion at higher SPLs and non-constant coverage vs. frequency. The Danley SH series basically eliminates those disadvantages in a multi-entry conical horn design. The Cornwall III will be a close contender except for the non-coaxial tweeter/midrange horns that aren't time-aligned (unless you tri-amp using digital delay to correct or you move the tweeter to the back of the cabinet top using a separate tweeter mounting baffle to time-align.
The only other speaker design that I know will knock your socks off is the Klipsch K-402 horn with a good compression driver like the Faital Pro or TAD 4002, suitably EQed for said driver/horn combination. This horn/driver will work on top of a Klipsch La Scala or Cornwall cabinet (or anything else that can support below 400 Hz): it would be hard to ever let go of a couple of these once you hear them - you couldn't ever go back. But they're not small.
Chris
"As far as the ear can tell, consistently clean and spacious bass can be reproduced only by a driver unit coupled to a horn-type acoustic transformer..."; Jack Dinsdale, May 1974
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