OMA on What are Horns

Horn loudspeaker principles explained.

[UncleChisel]

I have to say the passion you have for music and design comes crystal clear through your videos

[ianmedium]

Jonathan, I can’t thank you enough for this series of videos explaining the equipment and your philosophies on how to create something meaningful and thoughtful that engages someone to even greater depths so as to experience the music in greater depth and texture.

[alejandromassey]

Thank you Jonhatan for your very enriching lesson of Horns.👏👏👏

[Skellingtor]

these videos are great, super underrated content

[gordonbitting]

I discovered Horn speakers (Lowthers) 55 years ago and even though I have heard lots of other types of speakers never wanted to change them. I play records going back to acoustic 78s right up to CDs and pleased with the results. Multi Unit type speakers I have heard do nothing for me.

[bellasvistas]

Just played a couple Vinyl Albums. Thanks for the inspiration.

[MrNicks-gnjc]

Thanks for all the videos you have done about your design not an OMA customer, my current setup shares most of the same principles and I now am convinced we are on the correct sound reproduction path.

[lytehousewagnon]

Thank you for the explanation. You inspire me to create noise reproducing devices. That’s general, but I’d love to talk to you about those ideas.

Again thank you,

Lytehouse Wagnon

[One]

Old school Industrial Design Education! 🍾Cheers👍

[QoraxAudio]

Very nice explanations!
Definitely better than the videos of PS Audio, so I just subscribed 👍

[nicktube]

Jonathan, although I’m a relatively young audiophile, I much prefer vintage tech and love (good) horns.

Is the more direct sound compared to reflections the main reason that horn can portray bigger images than most other speakers, or is there another reason?

[QoraxAudio]

6:00 That's exactly why you should place the tweeter of the speaker at ear level.

[fanplant]

How do you like the University Dean behind you?

[inherent]

At my first million OMA it will be NO MATTER WHAT! 👍😎

[dhruvmeena]

that colouration is called higher order modes and compression artifact
oblate spheroid waveguide is the least coloured, then comes conical(edge diffraction happens in conical)

OMA should try Oblate spheroid Waveguide horns too as they are kinda like conical in structure

[Oneness]

I attended a concert in a round theater back in the early 80's. The theater had a combination of old EV multicell horns with a horn loaded bass driver to handle the seats midway into the theater to the seats in the back of the theater.. The first 10 or 12 rows had Meyer Sound lab monitors that were aimed at us. Since I was lucky enough to have seats close up, I was listening to the Meyer sound lab speakers which also had speaker correction to clean up the distortions. I found out the Meyer speakers also had a horn for the top end.. I took a bathroom break during one the sets, and as I walked to the back of the theater, I could hear a DRASTIC change in sound quality and when I was in the position that the EV multicell horns were aiming at, the sound changed drastically and there was a completely tonal difference but I could also hear a lot of distortion in the 3, 000 to 4500 hz range.. it was awful.. So, I can attest to multicell horns as not sounding very good at all.

I think the conical horn design may in fact be the better design. Haven't heard them in person but I think theoretically, they probably will..

[michaeldelorenzo]

the original horn speaker


wave lengths or.how long is one like in a pipe.organ