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In Reply to: RE: And you heard them when? posted by PAR on May 21, 2014 at 23:12:24
Dr Earl Geddes begs to differ with you on that one and frankly I trust him a lot more than you.
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... Earl Geddes is very trustworthy indeed on waveguides and directivity. This is about horns and diffraction though.
All horns are waveguides but not all waveguides are horns.
Diffraction is bad in any of them.
It was hearing the then fabulous Voigt Domestic Corner Horn as a youngster that got me into hi-fi so many years ago. However I find all Horn speakers I have auditioned including Voigts are colored and whilst they can give a very impressive sound they are IMO not accurate, or completely realistic, I could not live with any Horn speaker. So do not waste a $1m.
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..I admire your concision.
Except I doubt Geddes has ever built a speaker that sounds that good! So, while it might be a minor issue I think there are other, more important things that were nailed with the LV speaker and are probably lacking in nearly everyone else's speakers.
BTW, I have heard the same Kondo gear at Black Forest Audio in Germany, M-77 preamp, Kondo KSL DAC and Gaku Oh monos on different speakers and it was quite impressive as well but still nowhere near the realism that it had with the LV speakers.
So you are saying that the diffraction artefacts are clearly audible in a 'lesser' speaker but not in an allegedly better one?
That makes no sense whatsoever because if anything they would be more obvious.
I don't know how you got that out of what I said because that is NOT what I am saying. I am saying that I think you are overplaying the importance of diffraction artifacts with a horn design where the dispersion is clearly controlled how they want it to be. Normal diffraction issues like imaging problems were simply not evident with that system that had AWESOME imaging. Say what you think is right or wrong in theory but it is only that...theory and not the practical reality.
Diffraction = distortion. That is all there is to it.
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