Another vintage monster speaker (with a 30-inch woofer), the Electrovoice Patrician, was recommended for corner placement, but was not a horn-loaded woofer and could work well anywhere in the room. The Avant Garde Trio uses a bass horn, but is not meant to be corner loaded neither was the company's later Bass Horn. Most horn-loaded speakers today are not meant to be corner loaded and few use bass horns at all.
The K-horn got the corner horn part right, I think, but, to my knowledge, not too many have followed that path. Corner horn designs are few and far between.
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I don't believe the Klipschorn is really representative of any significant trend in home or even pro audio. That's what I would expect for a speaker which so polarizes opinions. As I said in the first paragraph of my post which started that thread: " K-horns are controversial and opinions not only vary widely, but are usually extremely polarized: listeners seem to either love 'em or hate 'em." The K-horn made exactly four out of eight of the top-12 lists of the polled TAS reviewers. My own review if this speaker is the subject of a separate thread here. I've been around audio long enough to have heard many of these at some length and over a number of years in different venues.
I thought it would be fun to comment not only on the current significance of the trend represented by each speaker, but also on the speaker's sound itself, if I'm familiar with it. Here are my takes on the list compiled from the eight reviewers' recommendations, starting from the bottom up. Or, in a few cases, designs which have stood the test of time extraordinarily well. No, the attempt was to name trend setters, designs which set the stage for later designs which built on the originals, or which inspired other designers to greater heights. It is clear from reading the article that few, if any, of the reviewers were naming speakers which the necessarily believe are the best sounding of all time, although there are probably a few of those among the nominees. In it, eight current reviewers of TAS, including founder Harry Pearson, were asked to name the dozen speakers which they thought to be the 12 most significant loudspeakers of all time. This is the title of a fascinating article in the current September 2010 Issue 205 of The Absolute Sound.
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