Ring Audio Master Horn Jazz Loudspeaker

Srajan Ebaen has posted a review of the Ring Audio Master Horn Jazz loudspeaker (€14,500/pair with CH1 subwoofer) at 6moons. His conclusions:

“Being very familiar with successful single-driver designs solo and with integral subwoofers—Voxativ and Rethm—the Ring Audio system doesn’t belong to their ranks yet. Its concept reads far smarter on paper than its current implementation delivers at the ear. The Master Horn does require subwoofer assist just as its designer accounts for. Yet the chosen combination doesn’t properly combine. I was glad I’d held off on their 300B SET. That would have made matters worse. The transient behavior of high Z-out triodes and class D amps with high damping factor is wildly disparate. In the end any €15.000 3-way speaker I can think of will deliver far better integration between its drivers and as such, far better performance. As is, I can’t recommend this as a system. But I will single out the subwoofers as meriting very close attention. While I prefer no amplifier hum to a faint one, theirs wasn’t audible 2 meters away. To insure personal ear calibration, I reverted back to my usual Gladius speakers. Instant sun shine. True cohesion. Different ball game altogether. Except for the low bass. Below 35Hz a pair of CH1 for an activated 1st octave would really round things out in casa Villeneuve. If they came striped like zebras to match my Cypriot mains. So do consider them!…”

You can read the full review here.