Avant Garde Horns

Avant Garde Horn speakers
at Coup de foudre in Montreal

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[Dresden0010]

Only a proper design, coupled with considerable MASS, can provide rock-solid reproduction. (Unfortunately, such demands are not commercially sustainable. Nevertheless, such an approach may be commercially sustainable in the form of a kit. Then, again, how many people nowadays actually like purchasing items you can't simply, 'plug-n-play'?)

[Dresden0010]

On 'ringing' horn sound:

I'm not sure if it is the horn or the manner in which the clip was recorded. However, I do know that 'ringing' in horns is commonly the result of using the horn beyond the range for which it was intended and/or the direct result of implementing a thin material spread in the design and manufacture of the horn.

[Dresden0010]

I'm hoping to construct the prototype of my horns this summer. If it all works out, I may put them on the market...relatively at a small fraction of that Avantgarde charges for theirs.

Good, realistic sound should not require a bank loan or 2nd mortgage.

[Dresden0010]

@socksumi In short, trademark/marketing and 'look' win over science...again.

I studied theory of horn speakers for approximately two years before designing a prototype, of which two promising designs were the result. In contrast to Avantgarde and other manufacturers which have designed their horn loudspeakers first and foremost with a concern for aesthetics, I designed for performance, with design being the deduction of materials consideration.

It was not easy.

And, no, they're not 'pretty'.

[socksumi]

I've see a frequency response plot of the Avante Guard speakers. I was shocked tpo see a noticeably irregular response with lots of peeks and dips. It's cumulative spectral decay plot is also not so tidy with a number of bands of stored energy and ringing. Yet these keep on getting touted as "state of the Art". I've heard them and (apart from sounding very dynamic and efficient) they do sound sharp and cold lacking the refinement of better systems.

[SilverStrings25]

lol these are seriously overpriced

[egindin]

and rings like hell...

[FEMASoKANALIA]

NOT!

[PERIZ99]

Expensive stuff..!