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It looks like a new horn maker wanted to be know: the Eleven Horns

http://www.elevenhorns.com/welcome.htm

"... so.. what is a junkie?   well, I guess an example is the best way to explain...  between the two of us, we own a few drivers - Western Electric, TAD, Altec, Goto, ALE, RCA, Radian, B&C, Coral, etc, etc... and not being entirely satisfied with any of them, we are now on the long, enjoyable journey to making our own.. patent papers everywhere... busted drivers... sliced diaphragms... spliced surrounds... oh, horns.. sorry about that.. yes, and we each have the ability to make any horn flare we want.. they litter our workshops... and we both agreed on a precious few -  those depicted here... so beware, like any junkie, we want to share... if only because it allows us to feed the habit... "

http://www.elevenhorns.com/ordering.htm

The company makes mostly Le Cleac'h horns or as I call them the “Le-Horns” (sorry, Mr. Le Cleac'h – I have difficult time to spell your name). The prices are all right and their attitude to make any custom job need to be welcomed.  Looking at the people behind the company it looks like it was Victor Sierra’s attempt to give a face lift to his old company.  Generally it is a good sign – the more horn makers the better.

Now some minor criticism. Obviously they need to develop their site. They need to put in there interesting IDEAS of horns systems, not just the gayishly-glossy pictures of a few Le-Horns. The horns in there look fine but all that “fine look” will go away after the first textured paint. Then, Victor Sierra lives and make his horns at some kind of island in ocean. It was known that some of his horns were turned with “wet” wood that dried out then at the customer side with some very unhappy consequences. So, it might be a good idea to have from Victor unfinished horn, have it to dry for a few month and then to finish it.

I think if people are looking and truing to solicit themselves as horn makers than they need to offer more than juts expertise to turner horn and to dip them into polyurethane. Horns themselves do not responsible for Sound, they juts a stupid brainless tool. Unfortunately the stupidity of audio people that Eleven Horns target is so high that even if they turn horn from mammoth’s bones then it would not be an assurance that people will be able to use the Le-Horns beneficially.

Will the Eleven Horns become as a some kind of new center of horn turning in US? It is hard to say. Jeffrey Jackson is behind the project from the US side (probably as a reseller). He is an interesting fellow with potent ideas but who will be the new customers?  10 year ago Brice Edgar’s shop was THE place for US horns. Brice is a talented and knowledgeable guy but who was his customers? They were explicitly audio bottom-eaters and the audio- douchebag of all strains.  Will, the Eleven Horns nurture their own breed of horn users? I do not think so, but I wish them luck.  So, far from what they have expressed at this site I do not see any offensive intent.

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