Dear Keith,

I read your 'review' of the Buschhorns (see the bose acoustic wave post
above) and the comparison with the Loth X's and was very surprised to read
that the BH's performed, in many ways better than the Loth's.

Do you think it's the single driver, because the horns sound more natural,
or is the Buschhorn design having no financial constraints just simply
better.

Rgds - Jem

"Jem Raid" wrote in message
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Dear Keith,

I read your 'review' of the Buschhorns (see the bose acoustic wave post
above) and the comparison with the Loth X's and was very surprised to read
that the BH's performed, in many ways better than the Loth's.

Do you think it's the single driver, because the horns sound more natural,
or is the Buschhorn design having no financial constraints just simply
better.



OK Jim, before I answer that, have a shufti at these:

http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/show/Stereo%20One.wav

http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/show/Stereo%20Two.wav

(10 Meg apiece, so not for 'dialup' types!)

Pick one as best (or least worst) and I'll tell you which it is!

(*Open mic* obviously, so they'll sound quite boxy to start off with -
'Boxy' and 'Uberboxy' then....?? :-)

"Keith G" wrote in message
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"Jem Raid" wrote in message
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Dear Keith,

I read your 'review' of the Buschhorns (see the bose acoustic wave post
above) and the comparison with the Loth X's and was very surprised to
read that the BH's performed, in many ways better than the Loth's.

Do you think it's the single driver, because the horns sound more
natural, or is the Buschhorn design having no financial constraints just
simply better.



OK Jim, before I answer that, have a shufti at these:

http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/show/Stereo%20One.wav

http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/show/Stereo%20Two.wav

(10 Meg apiece, so not for 'dialup' types!)

Pick one as best (or least worst) and I'll tell you which it is!

(*Open mic* obviously, so they'll sound quite boxy to start off with -
'Boxy' and 'Uberboxy' then....?? :-)





alas I'm a dialup type

Ahwell

Jem

"Jem Raid" wrote


Pick one as best (or least worst) and I'll tell you which it is!

(*Open mic* obviously, so they'll sound quite boxy to start off with -
'Boxy' and 'Uberboxy' then....?? :-)


alas I'm a dialup type

Ahwell


No worries Jim - these recordings are pretty hopeless anyway, other than
they might serve to demonstrate a) the room acoustics which started the
whole thing off and b) that these two tracks are not too dissimilar, which
is no bad thing if you consider one of them is a commercial product from a
manufacturer whose prices go up to about 14K (I believe)!!

As to why I prefer the sound of the Buschhorns to the Loths?

It's quite simple - the Loths sound 'nasal' by comparison! They probably
have better bass but it's lost in an overall, comparative 'boxyiness' and
sounds a wee bit 'honky' to me. The interesting thing is that I find horns
do sound a bit odd for a few minutes until (as Ken Kessler said re. the
Loths) 'you get used to them' * - then I find it's impossible to go back to
'normal' speakers. (Or the ones I have to hand, at least!)

The single driver helps I'm certain and it would be interesting to build a
pair of 'bass reflex type' speakers to see if this theory holds up.
Interestingly, the Loths have a fullrange driver *and* a supertweeter yet I
think the treble on the Buschhorns is sweeter. (I might post a couple more
tracks later to demonstrate this....)

Horns are not for everyone, but if you do 'get it' with them, the clarity,
'realism' and 'immediacy' of the sound is addictive, especially on triodes
(as per the recordings)....

I'll leave the tracks up for a while in case anybody wants to guess who the
singer is - not easy!! ;-)


*Damn good subject for a PhD thesis, if ever there was!

On Mon, 8 Aug 2005 09:34:44 +0100, "Keith G"
wrote:

I'll leave the tracks up for a while in case anybody wants to guess who the
singer is - not easy!! ;-)

Not Eddy Arnold, is it?

d

Pearce Consulting
http://www.pearce.uk.com

On Mon, 08 Aug 2005 09:17:43 GMT, (Don Pearce)
wrote:

On Mon, 8 Aug 2005 09:34:44 +0100, "Keith G"
wrote:

I'll leave the tracks up for a while in case anybody wants to guess who the
singer is - not easy!! ;-)

Not Eddy Arnold, is it?

d

Now I've looked at it in Audition, the bass seems to cut off pretty
much dead at 100Hz. I'm presuming that would be the record, rather
than the speakers?

d

Pearce Consulting
http://www.pearce.uk.com

"Don Pearce" wrote in message
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On Mon, 8 Aug 2005 09:34:44 +0100, "Keith G"
wrote:

I'll leave the tracks up for a while in case anybody wants to guess who
the
singer is - not easy!! ;-)

Not Eddy Arnold, is it?



Correct - it's not Eddy Arnold. :-)


Here's another one from the same artist. Two clues: First the bit preceding
the main track, second the disc itself is probably older than many of the
posters/lurkers here...!! (Apologies for the quality - it's the same open
mic setup, in mono 'cos the mic's gone tits-up again and normalised to get
it up to strength - IOW, ****e!)

The question is - are you/were you *cool* enough to remember him/them?

;-)