hORNS Aria lll Loudspeakers Mkll

                  hORNS Aria lll Loudspeakers  Mkll

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    The history of hORNS brand is connected with love to unusual sound and non-standard design. As a music lover, I have been looking for my sound for many years. Understanding the importance of individual approaching and continuous searching for new solutions found its vent in events in 2006. During searching for an ideal equipment to my space and my requirements, I realized that finding A proper set is nowadays a great challange. Set, which would live up to all my needs and, of course, would be affordable.
    My professional experience, which has been gained since the year 2000, connected with creating products made of various materials, inspired my imagination to an unusual, new brand. Brand, which, thanks to its new features and so far rarely used materials, would let obtain still unknown abilities of sound. It was the begining of the first loudhailers and next loudhailers systems by hORNS.

*For Choice of finish for cabinet select from wood colour chart in pictures or Ral numbers below.

*For Choice of horn unit choose from the following Ral Numbers:

white: Ral 9016 | black: Ral 9017 | blue: Ral 5005 | green: Ral 6005 | creme: Ral 1015 | red: Ral 3000 | purple: Ral 4007 | grey: Ral 7036

Hi Fi Test Germany - 03/2020 - Thomas Schmidt:

The latest creation from hOrns is called Aria III and costs just 4,700 euros per pair. The name Aria III must not be misunderstood as the name of the third incarnation of a model that has been built for a long time. Rather, the Aria III is the third variant of a group of slim floor-standing speakers with a conventional cone driver for the low-midrange and an inserted horn and driver for all frequencies above. The Aria I is the narrowest speaker in the family with a 17-centimeter driver and horn. The Aria II lives on an equally slim base, but has at least two of the chassis available for the low-midrange. The Aria III, our test model, on the other hand, has a 20-centimeter driver. That doesn't sound like a huge increase compared to the 17 and even a step backwards compared to the double configuration, but that is deceptive: In fact, the driver has almost the same area as the two of the Aria II and in terms of efficiency it comes close to the two colleagues: at least The Aria III pushes 86 decibels of sound pressure into the listening room at 2.83 volts at the terminals. From this value you can see that the horns have not been trimmed to maximum volume, but are trying to achieve a good compromise between efficiency and depth in the bass range. 83 volts at the terminals in the listening room. From this value you can see that the horns have not been trimmed to maximum volume, but are trying to achieve a good compromise between efficiency and depth in the bass range. 83 volts at the terminals in the listening room. From this value you can see that the horns have not been trimmed to maximum volume, but are trying to achieve a good compromise between efficiency and depth in the bass range.

That worked well: with a slightly falling level towards the bass, we measure a lower limit frequency in the mid 30 Hertz range - and that in the free field. In the listening room, the real bass capability of such a box goes much deeper and remains linear. Enough. The real delicacy of the Aria III is not the surely excellent woofer with the classic paper cone, but the tweeter horn, which for the first time in an Aria speaker protrudes over the actual housing. A larger horn means a lower possible frequency of use: Our measurements confirm that the high-frequency driver is already used below 1000 Hertz, which of course significantly improves the omnidirectional behavior of the box compared to a normal two-way "box". Short excursion on this: Conventional two-way loudspeakers with dome tweeters all suffer from the fact that they have to struggle with increasing bundling in a certain range below the crossover frequency. This is because the diaphragm of the woofer is too large to emit higher frequencies equally loudly in all directions. At the transition to the tweeter, the radiation behavior then changes again to sound energy that is evenly emitted over a significantly wider range.
In this respect, one can justifiably claim that these loudspeakers more or less discolour in any room that allows even a little indirect sound through reflections. The effect can be countered by using a smaller mid-bass driver, but then you are limited in the bass, or you use a dome that allows a lower crossover frequency, but even the most modern of these drivers do not really reach deeper than 1.5 with a reasonable load capacity Kilohertz. The ideal solution is at least a 3-way system or, with significantly less circuitry, a box with a horn tweeter. At hOrns, a special horn contour is also used, which allows a fairly wide sound distribution in all directions, which suits an open sound impression, while the more closely bundled horns often produce an impressively sharply outlined spatial image, which in the long run appears somewhat unnatural and, above all, exhausting. Not so with Aria III: the horn is clearly the star of the ensemble, so clear, dynamic and with a very light hand it draws the enormous range of over four octaves that it processes. Neither a transition to the bass-midrange driver nor any kind of discoloration, as one likes to say (some) horns.

And it doesn't matter at all whether you angle the speaker towards the listening position or set it up straight: This is how you dose the upper high frequency range, but you don't change the overall sound of the speakers. And it can be heard: As already suspected, the highs are not typical of the horn, but completely relaxed and airy with a lightness that is second to none. Again: we are dealing with a driver that is over an octave lower than almost all other tweeters - and yet the transition between the two drivers is imperceptible: the Aria III plays absolutely homogeneously. It is capable of a very deep bass reproduction, which also offers the right balance of "stability" and punch - typically light paper cone. Impressive, like in the first piece of "Svarta Björn" by Kari Bremnes the low drums rumble in the background, or in the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 the very low strings of the grand piano are struck with steely authority. And at the same time the violins shine with an enamel that would have pleased the composer himself. I don't want to say that the Aria III is a classic box, but the way it handles natural instruments is really sensational: There is no discoloration, the balance between the fundamental and overtones is finely balanced.

Above all, however, the enormous ease with which the hOrns box displays all dimensions and positions of the virtual stage is impressive, or it would be if this precision did not seem so effortless and self-evident. That already has enormous class and goes far beyond what is expected. And in the rock-pop area, the fine dynamic accuracy also comes with the power of a large woofer with plenty of air behind you. Even at very high levels, the Horns works dynamically and powerfully that it is a real pleasure - the perfect all-rounder.

Conclusion
The hOrns Aria III is a worthy addition to your family: both in terms of technology and sound, it is definitely an exceptional speaker that inspires well beyond its price range

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