Huge Horn Home-Theater Speakers for Giants

[Socnom]

I wonder if it comes with a complimentary DVD-Audio Vuvuzela concert disc. That should complete the experience of owning these speakers.

 

[calldon]

Kliphshorns are the way to go. I love the way these look, style and design, because they are unique looking. But for sound, Klipschorns are the speakers to hear!!

 

[kittle]

Horns done right sound Great.
even the one I made out of cardboard a few years back sounded very good.

People definately need to go visit a high-end audio shop and have a listen to their stuff (and I dont mean Best Buy's home theater department).

Im guessing those horns will be about $15,000 a pair.

 

[grieve]

I saw some speakers like this like 8 years ago and were around $80,000 each!
The sound is cleaner or something like that...

My dual 12"s have enough base and came in around $1,300 with an Amp and Box.

 

[mikem_90]

I dunno, I just imagine them as Cornucopias and tons of fruit and vegetables spilling out.

 

[tburns1]

I think a prerequisite for owning these is that you must be upper-middle management with an MBA or some other arts degree. Oh yeah ...and you have to be gay. p)

 

[tleavit]

Another example of the bleeding edge home theater industry whom will sell you speakers such as this for $25000 a pair that may sound 1% better then a $200 set of Polks.

 

[Humans think]

[citation][nom]tburns1[/nom]I think a prerequisite for owning these is that you must be upper-middle management with an MBA or some other arts degree. Oh yeah ...and you have to be gay. p)[/citation]

Gay: so that you don't have children hiding in the speakers, and also not having a wife that will leave you broke 😛

Imho add also guys that have small dicks (sorry for language) they always go for the huge stuff...

 

[blackbeastofaaaaagh]

> Horn Speakers sound crappy
Horn speaker systems can have excellent bass if carefully matched with an integrated subwoofer. The main problem is that great horn designs are so fast and life-like that it takes great skill to design and integrate a subwoofer that can keep up with the midrange and treble.

Horn speakers (and their quarter-wave and open-baffle brethren) are enjoying a huge come-back in recent years. These speakers are extremely efficient and can produce the same sound level with 5W that would take a typical speaker 100W to produce. The best of the breed can produce an effortless, life-like sound that preserves the largest (refered to as macro-dynamics) to the smallest (refered to a micro-dynamics) wave peaks that live music contains. Box speakers in comparison can make the music sound compressed and "forced" since they have difficulty reproducing sudden dynamic changes. Try comparing a live piano or drum to a recorded one.

High efficiency allows Horns to be driven by very simple, low-power "single-ended" (aka SET) amplifier circuits. These designs allow a single output-amplification device to produce the entire signal. The vast majority of today's amps use a "push-pull" topology (great for power and energy efficiency) that chop the signal into its positive and negative halves then recombine them at the output. SET fans love to quote the famous line "...and all the king's men, could not put Humpty back together again" when describing what ubiquitous push-pulls (aka class AB) designs do to the electrical signal.

Those who listen to "music" purely for the joy of shaking peoples houses off their foundations however, will completely miss the point of refined speaker designs.

 

[blackbeastofaaaaagh]

[citation][nom]tleavit[/nom]Another example of the bleeding edge home theater industry whom will sell you speakers such as this for $25000 a pair that may sound 1% better then a $200 set of Polks.[/citation]

Pick-up truck enthusiasts will often make a similar statement that's usually along the lines of "All I did was bolt on a supercharger and now my truck is every bit as good as any Porche (sic) for 1/10 the money!"

 

[tburns1]

[citation][nom]Humans think[/nom]Gay: so that you don't have children hiding in the speakers, and also not having a wife that will leave you broke Imho add also guys that have small dicks (sorry for language) they always go for the huge stuff...[/citation]
LOL!

 

[branson]

i would like 2 for my car please!

 

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[heycarnut]

@
"...ubiquitous push-pulls (aka class AB) designs ..."
I trust you are not an EE. I hope not, or you should be fired.
Output stage design (SE vs PP) has *nothing* to do with class (A/AB, etc.) You can use either for class A, and in fact the CMR aspects of a push-pull class A, and the ability to use smaller output transformers since there is no static DC offset in them, are considered advantages of such a design.