Worked away, some blood sweat and 
These weigh in at 55kgs each, up loft room stairs🥵
Here they are together
This is image enhanced
As the camera took it.
In real life they don’t look so red. Just terracotta.
Sound wise..
After a fair bit of listening to the SH60 alikes
They sound a bit more open and even more even than the SH50s.
It’s subtle but there.
I did have to reduce the dB level a little on the MF drivers.
2 X 5" drivers at 4ohm > than 4 X 5" drivers at 8ohm!
There’s a more solid stereo image / central vocal when it’s mixed that way, yet the out wide dynamics, tone and pump are still there.
I played various test my tracks and was wowed.
Made sure to listen over 2 nights to different things to avoid the initial wow factor I can suffer from, and then return back down to earth later😂
That return back down didn’t happen.
They are good!
Wife listened to her favourites and simply said, “you’ve nailed it”.
A test track I use for midrange soul / life likeness is the clarinet solo from the remastered Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong Together recordings..
That solo sounded amazing on my old round horn system. The JBL 2482 Alnico / Phenolic compression drivers on the perfect size T200 horn for those frequencies, brought it to life like it was in the room. Rare experience.
However, other things they did not do so well.. definitely not point source evenness.
The SH60s got that emotion and feel going nicely.
You’d think 50° to 60° wouldn’t make much difference - bit it does in my room.
All to do with the sound waves interacting with each other and the room..
Angles do matter apparently.
My room doesn’t suit Tractrix / Le Cléach (there’s not enough room and too many reflections I guess + plus the narrow throats sound..
The 60° horn angle opens things up nicely but not too much.
2 X 5" MFs with the tap holes a little farther apart sound just fine.
Don’t at all feel the need for 4..
Can’t explain it better than that, at the moment.
