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Which leads me to make this observation - I don't believe for a moment
SET/Horn setups only do 'vocal'. If that was the case I'd have no use for
them! A perfect example - earlier on I was listening to an unusal Polish
recording of Szymanowski's Violin Concerto No. 1 by Zachar Bron ('Muza'
label - SX 1536).

I dunno. Must be me, I must be going deaf...???

Didn't suggest or imply "only", but "few". A set/horn system won't do
much with the Saint-Saens Organ Symphony,


Damn, I'm cleaning all my records and am out of order for the moment (that's
a major reorganisation of 3-4,000 LPs!) and I know I cleaned a nice-looking
version of that a few days ago. I'll come back on it when I have found it
and played it. Otherwise, it's my SET and horns that was described as 'the
best drum sound I have ever heard' by a friend who works in a hifi shop a
few months ago - *and* I've put better drivers in since! That was back on
Fostex drivers and even I would say they don't do **bass*!!


Bach's B- Mass, even Mozart's
"Sparrow Mass"; trumpets in general, or anything with kettledrums.


So **not** my own experience...??? I just don't understand this??


But
frequency-limited sources with a similarly limited peak-to-average will
come out just fine.

As to "deaf", I went through a hearing test lately as part of an
overall physical, I am down 3dB at 17khz, 10dB at 18khz... the last
time I went through the same drill (30 years ago at age 24), I was down
3dB at 18khz... But then, I wore ear-valves (frequency-sensitive
ear-plugs) at concerts and proper ear protection when shooting. But we
are all going there. I knew I was over the hill when I finally admitted
to bifocals.


I dropped shooting like a stone a good while back - the game shooting
because I suddenly reakised what I was doing and clays I just drifted away
from (Sunday mornings - not a good time for me). The pistol target-shooting
I had stopped a while before that, I was Club Secretary of a 'Rifle Club'
which only shot pistols!!

Anyway, thank goodness I did - a friend of mine who continued long after I
stopped, is now quite deaf!!

I had a tone generator on the computer a while back and can only claim to
have been definitely able to hear the 14,252 (??) setting, but thankfully if
I'm out in the garden with Swim, it's me who hears the phone - and she is 13
years younger than me!! :-)