No bottom octave...

For some odd reason, the minute you mention 'horns' ('backhorn-loaded
fullrange, single driver speakers) to anyone they take great delight in
telling you they don't have anything at the frequency extremes. (Like 95% of
all other speakers that are commonly available *do*....??)

Well, I beg to differ...

After another recording sesh* last night, while the mics were still mounted
and wired up, I carried them through and recorded this extract from a
'pristine-looking, but very noisy' (as all vinylists know only too well)
Debussy Preludes LP:

http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/show...iano%20Bit.mp3


This does not approach the upper limits of these speakers, but does
demonstrate (I think) their ability to produce clean, low notes without the
continuous, tuneless boom that a lot of people seem to consider constitutes
a 'proper bass'...?

Or, to put it another way, how 'warm and woolly' is that..??

(Factor also in that this was recorded from a cheap, Chinese 300B SET with a
valve phono stage and we've got no chance, have we? :-)


* Here's an update, if anybody is at all interested - the end of the Mozart
Clart Concerto (1st Mov't) played over an LP in the background:

http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/show...vt%20(end).mp3


(Still not good, but I think Swim's starting to get into it nicely..!!??
:-)