Smooth sweet
and articulated reproduction with "life like" space
and air among instruments, resolution of detail is revealing with a
vivid and transparent "concert in your room" magic quality, and
captivating "live" performance with body, weight and presence.
Throughout the many years of testing the reproduction of many
musical
instruments, to my findings, wood horns are the highest expression
reproducing them, created to get the listener as closed to a live
performance as possible, capturing and reproducing continuous
transparent neutrality and purity of reproduction, rendering music with
the inherent sweetness and impact of a live performance.
They are simply
awesome!
Their combination with
a compression driver reproduces music with utterly low distortion
levels, thanks to the natural impedance
coupling of diaphragm to air, resulting in a very high efficiency
with very low power required to drive the diaphragm
micro-displacement, even at high sound levels. Offering a wide
sound dispersion pattern.
All wood construction and the right amount of cork covering
the back of each cell in the multicellular structure for
extra damping of resonances and vibrations,
yet letting the wood do it's job transferring the sound with
naturalness. Resonances and vibrations tend to mud the sound by adding
distortion to the reproduction, they are not acoustic musical
instruments creating their own sounds, but sound reproducers resembling them.
In an acoustic instrument the sound is produced by the natural
vibration of a metal string, membrane or air column amplified and
naturally changed to a pleasant sound by a wood acoustical resonator
box of an acoustical right size and shape, by a column of
air in the case of air instruments, made
of "non acoustically aggressive" metals such as bronze, or
wood that will reproduce as good, if not better, including percussion
instruments that uses membranes such as skins of animals
and natural wood for their acoustical properties.
A similitude exist using an all wood speaker system, in particular a
wood horn, the sound is reproduced by a metal transducer such as a
diaphragm and is acoustically "signed" by the wood it it's immediate
path to the media.
The advantage of natural wood and coatings having their own
nature's "signature" for the reproduction of music rendering a superbly smooth and natural low
distortion reproduction with
superbly clear voices is obvious.
Made
mainly of
Tilia, known as Basswood in North
America, that offers the advantage among other woods of
a low resonance, avoiding ringing at resonance frequencies. Light weight for ease of transportation.
Only
natural glue and wood, no fiberglass or any other
synthetic plastics are used. All natural Shellac finish.
The mounting flange is made of aircraft grade Birch plywood with
stainless steel hardware to mount to the provided all wood throat
adapter wave-guide with 1/4" or 5/16" stainless steel mounting bolts.
Wood
horns and especially multicellular are truly harder to
manufacture than the metal counterpart, we believe is worth the extra
effort, after all, how many metal violins are to be found ? Any
aluminum, plastic piano or flute ?
Handcrafted
with most care and high attention to detail !