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Ferguson Hill Clear Horns

by Josh Ray, May 30 '06

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See those big clear bubbles? Those are the Ferguson Hill horn speakers. Yeah, a nice departure from the other divorce-inspiring systems. While playing up that whole metro-suave angle, the Ferguson Hills are actually a pretty unique speaker. Unlike other horns with compression or standard drivers, FH uses a modified Lowther DX3 high-efficiency, full-range driver. Typically, Lowthers are used in unique folded cabinets. FH goes sans cabinet and fires the suckers into a massive acrylic horns.

There's a downside, of course. Bass. The FHs only hit 150Hz, a far cry from the 20Hz hearing limit. But beach-ball-styled powered bass modules are available, giving you a full system worthy of your Minority Report lifestyle.

Below, Ferguson Hill will be slowing their new "Mini" system at HE2006 in a few days. Identical to their statement system but in a slim-fast package. No specs yet so it's unknown how truly small it is, but the Mini is made for iPods and desktops. Price is also mini at $1000 instead of the $14k for the big Ferguson Hills. As far as I know, this is the smallest horn system available. We'll be at HE2006 with full coverage so we'll let you know if you should run out and buy one immediately. Stay tuned.

Fh Mini Speaker System 1

Comments

I saw these at the What HiFi show in 2005, and they sound as good as they look – the distibutor said that I'd be able to get hold of these in September / October 2006. I can't recommend these highly enough.
Mike H, London

Posted by: mike Hughes at July 7, 2006 7:56 AM