"johnebravo836" wrote in message

at wrote:
Hi,


I'm looking for a good quality full range speaker. I'd like to build
a cabinet with one such speaker in it. I don't want to use additional
speakers. I would prefer to use either a closed cabinet or a vented
one. The closed one is my first choice, as I want the most precision
out of sound. I want to also keep the design simple, so it is easy
to build.

[snip]

There was a review in the January, 2004 Stereophile of three
single-driver speaker systems that you might be interested in having a
look at -- portions of the article appear to be online at the
Stereophile website . . .

http://www.stereophile.com/loudspeakerreviews/104moth/

Notice the massive hole off axis, from 2 Khz on up. Rough, peaky response

Notice the absence of measurements of bass power-handling ability.

http://www.stereophile.com/loudspeakerreviews/104horn/

Ditto, only now from 4 KHz on up.. Rough, peaky response

http://www.stereophile.com/loudspeak...us/index3.html

Pushes the bar up to 10 KHz or so. Pretty smooth.

http://www.stereophile.com/loudspeak...ty/index4.html

Just a relatively smooth transition from broad dispersion to narrower
disperson. Smoother, yet.

Arny Krueger a écrit :

"johnebravo836" wrote in message


at wrote:

Hi,


I'm looking for a good quality full range speaker. I'd like to build
a cabinet with one such speaker in it. I don't want to use additional
speakers. I would prefer to use either a closed cabinet or a vented
one. The closed one is my first choice, as I want the most precision
out of sound. I want to also keep the design simple, so it is easy
to build.

[snip]

There was a review in the January, 2004 Stereophile of three
single-driver speaker systems that you might be interested in having a
look at -- portions of the article appear to be online at the
Stereophile website . . .

http://www.stereophile.com/loudspeakerreviews/104moth/


Notice the massive hole off axis, from 2 Khz on up. Rough, peaky response

Notice the absence of measurements of bass power-handling ability.


http://www.stereophile.com/loudspeakerreviews/104horn/


Ditto, only now from 4 KHz on up.. Rough, peaky response

What interested me is the following :

"Despite the somewhat fulsome lower octaves, the lowest notes in Jorge
Bolet's performance of Liszt's Funerailles (CD, BMG 63748-2) had
excellent pitch definition. In fact, the Horn loved good piano
recordings, tending toward a pleasantly big, dramatic sound with an
especially nice sense of flow and an unusually human touch—nothing
mechanical about the sound of the piano through this speaker."

I have read the same thing so many times about Fostex drivers. It seems
that a lot of guys have been totally astonished by the quality of the
piano and the human voice with horn construction + Fostex drivers.
This is why I *imperatively* need to test them.

"You have to be fairly brave to buy the Horns. It's like that scene in
The Abyss where Ed Harris stops breathing air and starts breathing
liquid: This is a whole new way of doing things,"

After that I'll be a kind of pioneer. :-)