jheis Posted August 20, 2005 Share Posted August 20, 2005 I wanna see how they play that trumpet.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tpg Posted August 20, 2005 Share Posted August 20, 2005 Have they changed up those ion tweeters yet? I thought the first couple of ones produced made so much ozone that it would kill you if you were closed up in a room with the speakers for an extended period of time... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunburnwilly Posted August 20, 2005 Share Posted August 20, 2005 I checked out their seperate tweeter package on the web site . Their Pizeo seperate is claimed to be functional to 50Khz . I can't remember hearing of a home audio component going that high . Oh well it's maximum spl is only 111db . So I guess it's pretty much useless . LOL ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oscarsear Posted August 20, 2005 Author Share Posted August 20, 2005 It is interesting and noteworthy that most of the worlds BIG dollar speakers use horns; usually radial. They can make great sound with a few horns whereas BIG $ cone speakers end up with as many as ten separate components/speaker. Look closely at these big horns...there made out of carbon fibers...spacey stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HornEd Posted August 20, 2005 Share Posted August 20, 2005 Ah, and well they should Oscarsear! The essence of a horn is to begin with a nearly perfect wave, albeit small and weak, and "grow" it along the length of a properly tapered horn until it enters the listening area... still as nearly perfect but robust with power! Properly engineered Big Horns inherently provide a more honest sound because they start small, relatively speaking, and maintain aural purity through the wave growing process. Part of the genius of Paul Klipsch was to design a commercially viable horn by folding it into a cabinet and the adjacent corner walls that extend the horn effect. The patented Klipschorn horn design jump starts the sound building process by putting a rather large speaker in the "small" end of a folded horn. The results? Magnificent! -HornEd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KlipsDude Posted August 22, 2005 Share Posted August 22, 2005 ---------------- On 8/20/2005 1:07:24 AM jheis wrote: I wanna see how they play that trumpet.... ---------------- LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightrider Posted August 23, 2005 Share Posted August 23, 2005 My La Scala have better efficency and make those ugly buggers look like something the cat barfed up! 325,000$ who are they trying to scam? Cheers, nightrider Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krustyoldsarge Posted August 23, 2005 Share Posted August 23, 2005 ---------------- On 8/19/2005 6:25:44 AM 1BigBore wrote: Is it just me, or do those big red horns look like they should be in a Dr.Seuss book? 1BB---------------- Thought I saw some speakers like this hanging from ceiling of the "#1 Club" in Landstuhl, Germany back many years ago. Anyway, they're uglier than my beer gut! Super low WAF! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunburnwilly Posted August 23, 2005 Share Posted August 23, 2005 Actualy I don't find them to be ugly , allthough I think the other ones in their line look better . But heck for the money I could buy a pair of the Wilson Alexandrias and have 200K left over to get their 8' tall 700Lb X-2 sub and those trick oxygen free Unobtainium speaker cables that I have been wanting . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IndyKlipschFan Posted August 23, 2005 Share Posted August 23, 2005 Maybe it was the shipping cost that put it over the edge for me.. oh well! hahahahaha Seriously, they look pretty cool! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunburnwilly Posted August 24, 2005 Share Posted August 24, 2005 Seriously , At over 1000 Lbs each , what would you have to do to your floor or foundation to accomadate them ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxg Posted August 24, 2005 Share Posted August 24, 2005 As it happens there is a Greek distributor for this make here in Athens. I have not yet been to listen but Tony has. His response - Don't bother. I stress, however, that these were the little cheapie units at only $40,000. Tony prefered the sound of the Triangle speakers they had there - and those were about $5000. They dont appear to be very good value for money and I would be very surprised if even the big ones weren't smoked by the Avantegard Trio (at one tenth of the price even the Trio starts to look like a bargain). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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