Are these horn speakers phoney?

[planet10]

Its a Fostex FE83, good from 200 Hz up. the BVR vent might get them down to 150.

dave

 

[plasnu]

Horn market is expanding these days. Google iPhone + Horn, you'll find tons of products.

 

[GM]

Again, this is important: "to use for musical instrument amplification"

For Hi Fi, you want accuracy.

For instrument amplification, a speaker doesn't need to be accurate. It needs to be whatever pleases the musician -

Yeah, this is the crux of the matter; I never cease to be amazed at the number of folks that believe that to accurately reproduce recorded music in a HIFI app that they either need what's used on stage or in the recording studio's playback system.

It's quite often entertaining, especially when using big vintage systems for classic Rock, Pop, etc., but not an accurate reproducer as they are adding a second layer [and potentially more if tube 'rolling'] of whatever the mixdown engineer was hearing.

GM