Danley Sound Labs has introduced the new Danley SBH-10 “Skinny Big Horn,” which uses Danley’s patented Paraline technologies to deliver the aesthetic benefits of a column speaker but with much greater fidelity and pattern control with no requirement for complicated signal processing.

Weighing it at one-hundred pounds with dimensions of 60 x 9 x 9 inches, the SBH-10 is composed of eight 5-inch coaxial drivers and acts as a single large Synergy Horn with the directivity of a 25-foot horn.

Its coverage pattern measures 140 x 10 degrees, and its frequency response extends from 77Hz to 15kHz, +/-3dB.

“Danley’s new Skinny Big Horn series meets the aesthetic desire for a low profile column shape,” said Mike Hedden, president of Danley Sound Labs. “But shape is where the similarities between conventional column speakers and the Danley Skinny Big Horn end. Using our patented Paraline technology, the SBH-10 has the directivity of a twenty-five foot long horn, yet it is only nine inches deep.

 

“Moreover, due to horn loading, the SBH-10 has a sensitivity of 99dB, which is 10dB greater than similar sized cone-loaded products, and because it has such a high power handling rating, is capable of close to 20dB greater output when compared to similarly sized, front-loaded designs.

“The Danley Skinny Big Horn is a technological leap: no spurious lobes, forward directivity that other manufacturers can only dream of which allows it to even be flown away from a boundary, extremely tight vertical coverage, wide horizontal coverage, and – most importantly – audiophile fidelity.

“If all that weren’t enough, the SBH-10 requires only one amplifier channel and no special signal processing.”

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