Late in july 2003 we got an email from Tony Morgan, Calgary Alberta, Canada ordering our HSV1-E kit.

We sent a pre-payment invoice, which was paid in a few days. The day after the payment arrived his HSV-1E kits were on their way to Canada.

He built two VH-2 speakers, slightly modified to fit his room.
Then we recieved this email...

I am still getting used to listening to good sound.
I already hear more music on CD's I thought I knew.

Cheers Tony

Notice how nicely he made his speakers fit into the room, just between the windows, like pillars under the lower part of the ceiling. Very nice!

When we asked him if we could publish the picture and his name he wrote:

”I already hear more music on CD's I thought I knew” is a common first impression listening to music with our hybrid horns (VH-1 and VH-2) for the first time.
Small details your ordinary speakers couldn´t reproduce suddenly appear! You finally hear that triangle playing behind the brass section. And the voices of the background singers come out as easily separated voices, not just as a ”blurred choir”. Your recordings come alive in a way they can´t through ordinary speakers.

After a few days more of listening to music, Tony Morgan wrote us another email:

This might be the ”bad” part – You start hearing the difference between perfectly and not perfectly recorded music. If you don´t watch out, you might get really fastidious (fuzzy)!
So when your friends ask you what you think about their ”normal” speakers, you have to watch your tounge, so that you don´t hurt their feelings!
When you get used to the open, easy-to-listen-to sound of our voigthorns, most other loudspeakers sound boxed-in and simply dull.

Well designed horns (and ours are no exception) produce a sound very close to the sound you get sitting in the front row of a live performance in a concert hall. The room sounds bigger, and at the same time the musicians get close to you. The result is, as Tony puts it, ”amazing”. The voigthorns actually ”compensate” for the bad acoustics (over damped) of a typical living room.

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