RE: After 20 years I have gone back to horns

Posted by morricab (S) on July 7, 2014 at 04:54:47

In Reply to: RE: After 20 years I have gone back to horns posted by Awe-d-o-file on June 30, 2014 at 12:37:35:

there is very little info on this model as it was nearly custom and relatively early in the companies history.

However, what I do know is this:
the main driver is a 10 inch paper cone that is backloaded into a folded horn. The tweeter is a compression driver in about a 10 inch wooden horn that is set into the speaker (the mouth of the horn is flush with woofer). System sensitivity is about 98db/watt. Crossover is external and biwireable/biampable. The tweeter has 3 level position adjustments.

Bass is rated to 48 hz but it sounds very robust down to that range. I will use a servo sub to augment the last octave or so of bass.

The system is about 1.4-1.5 meters tall and weighs a substantial 80Kg (176 lbs) per side.

Apparently the system was informally reviewed by Jonathan Scull from Stereophile back in 1998 and 1999 and he was rather blown away by the sound. No formal reviews can be found.

I don't know what the make of the drivers are inside but given the cost of the system when new (around $16,000) they are likely high quality units.

It was the premium 2-way system from Odeon at the time and I think only the Nr. 30 and Nr. 33 were bigger and more expensive.

What I can tell you is that they sound very robust and lifelike, especially male singing voice came through spookily real. I didn't get the impression of them being tipped up but I wouldn't be surprised if the actual FR is not terribly smooth...I haven't seen a horn speaker yet that had really smooth FR response.

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Topic - After 20 years I have gone back to horns - morricab 02:06:34 06/30/14 (18)

There is something about Horns............. - Cougar 17:26:21 07/10/14 (0)

RE: After 20 years I have gone back to horns - geezerrocket 10:16:40 07/03/14 (0)

RE: After 20 years I have gone back to horns - Joseph Crowe 08:16:06 07/03/14 (2)

RE: After 20 years I have gone back to horns - morricab 04:28:56 07/07/14 (0)

The room trumps all gear, obviously Stereophile is listening in the wrong room~nT - Cleantimestream 18:04:03 07/06/14 (0)

RE: After 20 years I have gone back to horns - Joseph Crowe 07:49:36 07/03/14 (0)

RE: After 20 years I have gone back to horns - EduardG 21:55:40 07/01/14 (5)

Fairly sure - jusbe 01:07:34 07/02/14 (4)

RE: Fairly sure - morricab 04:31:02 07/07/14 (3)

RE: Fairly sure - BofService 16:33:00 07/11/14 (0)

RE: Fairly sure - Inmate51 07:38:50 07/11/14 (1)

RE: Fairly sure - morricab 03:12:08 07/13/14 (0)

I could not imagine leaving..............................nt - Cut-Throat 17:16:36 06/30/14 (1)

^ this* - triode 14:34:27 07/04/14 (0)

RE: After 20 years I have gone back to horns - Awe-d-o-file 12:37:35 06/30/14 (2)

RE: After 20 years I have gone back to horns - morricab 04:54:47 07/07/14 (0)

RE: After 20 years I have gone back to horns - hottattoo 18:00:13 06/30/14 (0)

RE: After 20 years I have gone back to horns - fstein 10:42:48 06/30/14 (0)

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