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RE: Sound beyond Horns?
Posted by Tom Brennan on November 13, 2021 at 13:49:00:
For many years I owned a house and was a big time horny with all kinds of Altec, JBL, Klipsch, Edgar, EV and such gear. When I moved to a high rise apartment on the Lake in Chicago I dehorned and got Martin Logan Vista electrostartic hybrids (cone woofer below 400hz). I found them completely satisfactory and they matched my best horn systems in all areas except dynamics and I no longer needed, or could use big time dynamics. They had great tone and the extreme clarity of horns that allowed deep listening. And I thought stats were just cooler than conventional cones and domes in boxes.
The only thing I sometimes missed was the Technicolor midrange of my Altec systems based on 515, 416 and 414 woofers. But then that was an Altec thing not a horn thing. Anyway I suggest listening to some electrostats; the best stats I heard were the big Sound Labs.