Approachable horns?

[Tenson]

I have a break-down in terms of the fundamental of each instrument, but not including the harmonics I'm afraid. It would get even more complex than you might imagine as some instruments like the piano have non-harmonically related overtones.

By the way, I am about to post an updated crossover for my coax speakers in the DIY section and I will comment on the baffle-step vs. power response issue a little.

 

[Coda II]

Good stuff Martin - that first article especially.

Just to cherry pick a few points, make gross generalisations and bend them to fit what we might have heard:

Piano has very few harmonics (but lots of partials)

Trumpet, oboe and violin lots of harmonics - many of almost equal level to the fundamental.

[large dose of hindsight]
what were the three instruments that I commented on as sounding particularly smoothed out and the one I thought particularly forward?
[/large dose of hindsight]

Back to voice types, which this article doesn't address:

for me Christine Schäfer (light, 'pure toned' soprano) came off far less well than Karita Mattila (lyric dramatic soprano) who sounded amazing.

 

[hifi addict]

Aparrently the Gem audio loudspeakers using the Fostex drive unit is very good. They look very nice and could have the WAF. I haven't heard them myself yet but had some good reports. Alium Audio bring them in.

 

[Coda II]

that'll be Gemme audio then...?

gemmeAudio

and very nice they look too, site is worth a read (with horny pics)

wonder how they sound

 

[hifi addict]

Opps sorry for the type O it was late.

Apparently, they gave out loads of bass to the extent it was causing problems in their room. But I think they have potential. Paul messenger is listening to them at the moment. He gave me call to come over and have a listen.

I'll try and get over to him on Friday thn report back.

The other horns I saw at the Munich show was the Consonance horns. I quite like them. I'm interested in having a serious listen to them.