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	Avantgarde > Horn Speaker (Floorstander)

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The AVANTGARDE ACOUSTIC BASSHORN is an active system covering the range from 18 to 250 hz. The modulare concept allows you to tailor the system to your needs. 2, 4 or 6 modules will give you state-of-the-art bass performance.

Each bass horn module is driven by 2 x 12 inch drivers and powered by a 350 Watt built-in active amplifier. If you look at the specs below, you know why we believe this is the best bass in the world. You will get a small feeling of its potential AND you will be impressed.

In its maximum configuration with six modules the AVANTGARDE ACOUSTIC BASSHORN sets new standards:

12 x 12 inch drivers
108 kg (240 lbs) of magnet weight
6.600 sq. cm (1020 sq. inch) of effective surface area of drivers
3 liters (102 oz) of displacement volume of drivers
2.1 kilowatt of integrated amplifier power
7.2 kilowatt of RMS power handling capability
5.7 sq. m (54 sq. ft) horn mouth area
109.5 dB efficiency

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Customer's Installations of Avantgarde's speakers.

Designer's Comments:

You can see: this is big stuff and makes other commercially available bass systems look like small baby toys! But just being big, is not enough! If you order an Avantgarde system, you can expect it to have some "avantgarde" technology inside. We wouldn't be Avantgarde Acoustic if we wouldn't come up with a unique and "avantgarde" solution! So what - besides its size and its impressive technical specs - is so special with the new "AVANTGARDE ACOUSTIC BASSHORN"?

Proudly presenting: A D R I C (patent pend.) A D R I C stands for "Active Dynamic Radiation Impedance Compensation". This is a special circuitry, which dynamically compensates for small horn mouth dimensions and linearizes the bass response below the cut-off frequency of the horn. It enables us to achieve a bass response down to 18 hz with a horn mouth of just 0,85 sq.m (9 sq. ft.). This is unique and we build the only horn system in the world which achieves this kind of incredible low frequency response!!!

As the patent is still being submitted, I cannot reveal more information and details at this point. But belief me: we achieve deeper and more accurate bass than anybody else! With a horn that is normally by far too small for low frequency reproduction!

So finally: how does it sound?

My personal system (TRIO OMEGA with THE BASSHORN) has been installed last week. Since than I am listening to the system till late in the nights. I am totally addicted ...

Whether you listen very loud or soft, the sound is always amazing: very fast, very detailed, very powerful, very precise! The transient are out-of-this-world. The energy content (even when you play at low volumes!) is gigantic. You don't recognize your records anymore! I don't like Madonna too much, but if you listen to it on this system your jaws clap! Wonderful!! Even tracks with no bass (example some acoustical guitar) benefit dramatically from this new bass quality ...

Everything sounds so effortless and natural!!

About Avantgarde Acoustics

"The experience of listening to music reproduction from a well designed hornspeaker system is unique. It's as if it were live music. This made me a real enthusiast for this fascinating loudspeaker technology. This "live music" experience is what we based the foundation of our company Avantgarde Acoustic on. We're entirely convinced that the striking sound quality of the horn is unique. For the past twelve years we've dedicated ourselves solely to refining horn technology. We, a small team of dedicated engineers and designers, manufacture the Avantgarde Acoustic Hornspeakers here in Lautertal, Germany...."

Holger Fromme
Managing Director, Avantgarde Acoustic, GmbH

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