If you can't budget for a true 500WPC amp and all sorts of room treatment, horn loaded speakers may be an excellent choice.Īctually it's more right then wrong. Obviously, there may be exceptions to this generality, but the point is its a decent thing to keep in mind when comparing speakers. It is a tradeoff, but because of the relatively low wasted power in horn loaded tweeters and the less effect a bad listening enviroment has on them, they do remain quite popular.
This is not a bad thing if extreme room renovation is not a possibility.īecause the horn loaded speaker is sending ALL of its sound forward, you're actually getting a relatively equal mix of lows, mids, and highs, as opposed to wide dispersion dome-tweeter type speakers that send about equal balance forward, but also significant midrange to the sides.Ī general rule that you could follow is that for a similiar overall performance class of speaker, the horn loaded one will probably sound better in a poorly treated enviroment but a wide dispersion speaker will probably sound better in a well-treated room. In traditional dome tweeters, you are radiating some extra sound to the sides such that in a reflective room, you might hear more overall sound in the midrange and the low range because what you hear for highs isn't projected so widely and thus its less efficient, especially at the high range, overall.Ī horn loader speaker will sound similiarly between different rooms because its allowing less of its sound to radiate in an extremely wide pattern in the first place. Any truth to these statements ? They're part of a post on another forum (but from '05) :įor an actual technical reason, consider that a horn loaded speaker achieves its high sensitivity by directing more sound forward and less to the side.
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