Hello again,


I spent the evening listening to some old music which ranged from The Doors (Riders on the Storm) to Styx (Man in the Wilderness; Castle Walls; Grand Illusion). Adding Boston to the mix created feelings of nostalgia that make me wish I were 23 again.


The point I'm wandering towards is that the system I currently listen to is primarily horn loaded. I have a pair of the 8 foot tapped subwoofer horns, a pair of paper mache high frequency horns loaded with JBL 2446 compression drivers, and 4 Eminence 12 Kappa Pro drivers in a pair of sealed enclosures (2 per). The Kappa's keep up--just barely. 


This combination sounds fantastic up loud... my wife is out of town ;^)   Old music sounds better than I remember on the older sound systems. Castle Walls has an organ bass note in the climax that will literally make your eyeballs rattle in their sockets. I smiled, then shouted "Hell yeah!" I'm so happy to have discovered audio. 

 


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    Hello. My name is John Inlow and I'm here to confess: I love horns. My first experience, one that changed my life forever, occurred over thirty years ago. I happened to be shopping for EV drivers at a local Mom and Pops audio store--Wasson's Laffiette, I believe. This store was the best thing a newcomer to audio could sink his teeth into. They had a selection of plywood horns to die for. I remember listening to a small folded horn, couldn't have gone much lower than 100hz. Weak bass, or not,  that was all it took. I've loved horns from that point on and never looked back.

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