"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote


Trouble with horns is you tend to hear the horn.

Yes, you do but I'm pleased to say my 'Not So Little Pink Pair' do
genuinely sound a lot less *horny* than the Loths!

Think is that power from amps is cheap these days. Horns were popular when
it wasn't, as they're more efficient. And remain popular for some PA
speakers where very high power levels are needed.

But for natural reproduction of speech and music things have moved on.


????

Believe this or believe it not (it's all one to me, as I have said before)
as I was reading those *very words* a while back, Swim passed by and said
'that sounds so *very* lifelike' - that was an Ella Fitzgerald **CD** I had
just put on the triodes/horns.... :-)

Perhaps a snicky picky at the 'Tech' page on this site:

http://www.carfrae.com/pages/frameset.html

will give anyone who is interested a bit of an idea without getting *too*
technical - the 'science/art' of horn speakers is a bit more complex than it
might first appear and yet it is/can be enormous fun. (Hilarious actually -
check out some of the prices!! ;-)

(I'm saying no more on the subject until Shiny Nigel's been tomorrow
evening!! :-)