I'm finding Peter's final destination fascinating.
My first proper stratospheric hifi experience was Klipshorn corner horns, at an audio show in late 80s.
They were so superior to all the earthbound box spkrs and panels playing elsewhere.
Music just appeared in the room, seemingly no artifice.
I'm not sure why I didn't follow up on them and track towards a purchase a decade later when I was in a position to afford to buy them, and house them.
All I can say is, the memory of them decades later is still w me.
And the three or four most striking audio experiences I've had since, where the literal drag factor of every other box spkr is not apparent, has been horns.
Ive heard a fair number of horns demos that have also been failures.
But successful horns implementations are so superior to everything else, it's almost laughable.
Indeed one of the strongest impulses on hearing a great horns demo is to laugh incessantly, or at very least get facial rictus from inane grinning for the whole session.
My first proper stratospheric hifi experience was Klipshorn corner horns, at an audio show in late 80s.
They were so superior to all the earthbound box spkrs and panels playing elsewhere.
Music just appeared in the room, seemingly no artifice.
I'm not sure why I didn't follow up on them and track towards a purchase a decade later when I was in a position to afford to buy them, and house them.
All I can say is, the memory of them decades later is still w me.
And the three or four most striking audio experiences I've had since, where the literal drag factor of every other box spkr is not apparent, has been horns.
Ive heard a fair number of horns demos that have also been failures.
But successful horns implementations are so superior to everything else, it's almost laughable.
Indeed one of the strongest impulses on hearing a great horns demo is to laugh incessantly, or at very least get facial rictus from inane grinning for the whole session.