To add to the information about the Krix speakers.
I spent a long time talking to one of the Krix guys.
The potential name is Heretix. I was excited because I know Krix well including the head designer. Also excited because, although Krix have had a good range of well regarded hifi speakers, they have never stepped into the ether that this one will inhabit, being an order of magnitude higher in every way.
Seems they have a large part of their business supplying horn systems to large cinema complexes.
They want to bring their expertise to home horn stereos.
You are right that this is not the challenge for them in technical terms that one might assume, because they have extensive experience in the commercial cinema horn-and-box concept. They have also been offering high-end home cinema solutions, such as the Cinematix, that draw heavily on their commercial experience. One can see the conceptual similarity between the Heretix and the Cinematix.
Their system was a high and a middle range horn, crossing over to dynamic drivers at 300hz.
Tri amped system with a DEQX processor.
Yes,
externally tri-amped, so buyers actually receive a rack-full of gear comprising three 3U boxes of Elektra power amps and a 2U DEQX unit. If it goes to market.
Sounded very good (although being an electrostatic guy I would not buy one!!).
Thought the tentative pricing was good considering the package.
Krix were tweaking the sound over the course of their demos. For instance my companions were unimpressed on Saturday but much more impressed on Sunday. I was there several times too, and heard numerous visitors saying 'best sound of the show', and have seen that comment repeated on another hifi forum that shall remain nameless. One thing is for sure: in several aspects this gear was delivering in ways that no other system on show even approached. And in the biggest room of the show.
