Movie theaters are compelled to use big horn-loaded speakers in order to fill large movie theaters with powerful sound without having to use huge amplifiers (for the same reasons, horn speakers are also used for stadium and outdoor concerts). As such, horns will do the job, but there is a cost in fidelity and natural sound quality. Horns tend to make many sounds a bit aggressive and screechy at times, especially instrumental sounds.
Home surround sound doesn't need to use horn speakers because the rooms are way smaller, so speakers that are more natural-sounding can be used instead.
Yeah, I hate all those screechy sounds in movies with my RF7's. It's like all those screechy sounds are in the room with you and it makes you jump because it's too screechy, horny, real.
Wow... what a disappointing (and just plain terrible) article. I was expecting some enlightening insight into the difference between mixing for the theater and mixing for the home (seems to be a hot topic lately.) And we get ... "horns are screechy"???
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Originally Posted by ekscden /forum/post/21067157
Yeah, I hate all those screechy sounds in movies with my RF7's. It's like all those screechy sounds are in the room with you and it makes you jump because it's too screechy, horny, real.
it sort of reads like a high school essay about surround sound, circa early to mid 2000's.
is hometoys.com one of those sites so starved for content that they accept any/all freelance articles even vaguely related to topics their targeted demographic would be interested in?
i guess editorial standards are a quaint notion from a bygone era when paper was king.
Pioneer (TAD) and JBL would disagree with this article.
Best system I have hard would include high end horns. As an owner of TAD compression drivers and a person that has heard JBLs best systems I will say that Axiom audio is peddling something foolish and have never experienced a truely high end HT setup.
Lets face it if you want to have a high end home theater system it starts by realizing that 6.5" driver and dome tweeters with
I find this sooo ironic coming from a company whose speakers have unsupressed metal cone breakups right in the lower treble, and has to resort to heavily lobing dual dome tweeters just to avoid power compression.
The article was contributed by Axiom. And if they think it will make people choose their cardboard-built components over JBL's and other real speaker manufacturers, they're dreaming.
Actually having owned TAD speakers, I can honestly say my Martin Logans are heads and shoulders above them for sound fidelity and the finest speakers I have owned to date. I'm in the camp that isn't crazy about horns.
This article is generalized to the point of absurdity while at the same time coming from a suspected biased source, but I have to agree with Splicer in the fact that horn drivers aren't for everyone. Personally I find horn tweeters to be fatiguing over time though they do sound nice in small doses.
I also agree that horn tweeters are difficult to listen to when listening to music. I would never consider a pair of Klipsch speakers for a 2-channel setup or purely audio setup. However, when I listen to friends Klipsch systems for movies, I like them. I don't LOVE them, but I like them. But it's all personal taste. Which is why I don't own any commercial speakers. I couldn't find a pair I liked enough to buy. DIY is my cup of tea.
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Originally Posted by deewan /forum/post/21068942
I also agree that horn tweeters are difficult to listen to when listening to music. I would never consider a pair of Klipsch speakers for a 2-channel setup or purely audio setup. However, when I listen to friends Klipsch systems for movies, I like them. I don't LOVE them, but I like them. But it's all personal taste. Which is why I don't own any commercial speakers. I couldn't find a pair I liked enough to buy. DIY is my cup of tea.
I've heard enough to know they aren't my favorite tweeter. And Klipsch are not the only brand. But that is me, I'm not saying they aren't perfect for someone else. I love ribbon tweeters, while some people hate them. This hobby is all subjective. It isn't like classics cars where horsepower or matching serial numbers makes something better. It's personal taste, and for me, a horn tweeter gets straining after about 2 minutes of music.
Like deewan said, it's a personal preference. Horns have always been too harsh for me. Maybe I haven't heard the best there are but the one's I have don't suit me either.
No, you haven't. And I say this as a guy who's more sensitive to the ills of most horns than most people.
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