PA as home hifi.

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   Just wandering through Youtube i found this, have to say, the quality is amazing. How clear and precise is this? Wow. 

(Yes, i know there is some hi-end gear driving it, but credit where it's due.)

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jbl_man Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Moderator Group Joined: 12 January 2005 Location: London. Status: Offline Points: 11121	Post Options Post Reply Quote jbl_man Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: PA as home hifi. Posted: 12 June 2022 at 1:46pm
	Just wandering through Youtube i found this, have to say, the quality is amazing. How clear and precise is this? Wow. (Yes, i know there is some hi-end gear driving it, but credit where it's due.)
	Be seeing you.

Lucasdude Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Young Croc Joined: 16 March 2013 Location: London Status: Offline Points: 642	Post Options Post Reply Quote Lucasdude Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 12 June 2022 at 3:36pm
	I think the original Living Voice Air Partner was a single w bin with a pair of scoops/HF horns. Very expensive 30 odd years ago, and extremely efficient so was popular with valve amp enthusiasts. I can't work out how to post pictures, but there are a few decent images of the birds eye maple ones about.

jazomir Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Old Croc Joined: 20 November 2006 Location: Sunderland UK Status: Offline Points: 1707	Post Options Post Reply Quote jazomir Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 12 June 2022 at 4:11pm
	Must disagree on you with this one. I find that the horn loaded systems used as HiFi tend to have a certain 'PA' sound. The over emphasised bass and slightly honky 'horn' sound ruin it for me - this was never obvious on systems like the Altec A7 back in the old days. The system on Bennett Prescott's video sounds really good but I always refer back to my brother's EV S200 that I used to use when I had issues with my old A&Rs (child number 2 used them as a climbing frame - needing very expensive imports from the US and elsewhere which took for ages) as a nice HiFi sounding system. I have read on other forums that the choice of drivers would not be to everyone's taste but sounds pretty good to me - a bit of judicious FIR tweaking would make it even better IMHO. Edited by jazomir - 12 June 2022 at 4:15pm
	For sidefills, can we have two enormous things of a type that might be venerated as Gods by the inhabitants of Easter Island, capable of reaching volumes that would make Beelzebub soil his pants.