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In Reply to: RE: Those darn measurements ! posted by A.Wayne on June 24, 2017 at 17:26:14
Yeah, the horn makers had other markets -cinema, live venue, recording studio. And they made cone-speakers for the masses.Besides a lack of (new) horn companies in the 70s, the use of transistor amps hurt the horn, too. Since they were so revealing of early transistor sound. (Unless the horn fan scooped-up a tube amp from the 60s).
Then, the ESL. Audiophiles had another choice by the 70s -when ESLs came down in price and improved their durability problems.
I'm still surprised, though. To use an ESL, you had to use a high-powered/harsh sounding transistor amp. But audiophiles made their choice, only to back-away from ESLs (eventually).
J. Gordon Holt thought the Servo-Statik was 'best ever' in 1968. By the mid 80s, he was using studio monitors (waveguide-horn type). His reference speaker for the rest of his life.
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