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Hedlund Horn was our first speaker in commercial production. Thanks to Jan Hedlund, the constructor from Sweden who designed it, we got permission to build it for the market. But we didn't just do it in it's original DIY form, we've added every possible improvement, resulting in a product of wonderful appearance and spectacular sound.
We make Hedlunds by bending sheets of wood veneer and MDF, gluing them together in the process, the result being precisely curved plywood of 26mm thickness. 28mm veneered MDF is used for sidewalls and solid wood for foot, side supports and the front panel. Read more about this in the 'Specifics' pages.
Since 1999, when we started production, they have been exported to almost every corner of the world, from Canada and the US to the Far East. Most of them ended up in Europe of course, since transportation and handling makes up a significant part of the total cost. See the measurements below..
Veliki Horn is our ultimate speaker. It employs not only old knowledge in a new way but also orthodox views and solutions, making it revolutionary in few aspects - as much as this term can be used for something with basic principles dating back a few centuries. Briefly, it's a back-loaded, back-firing horn of combined expansions totaling over 4m in length.
The use of multiple expansions is the one thing that sets it apart from all other known back-loaded horn designs. This means Veliki is not one horn, but a horn system made of 3 sections of different expansion profiles where the throats of the final two sections begin from the mouths of the previous sections. The reason why it was done this way was an attempt to design an inverse filter system for the non-uniform driver response (all high efficiency drivers have non-uniform responses, both absolutely and relatively), this way achieving a speaker system having a uniform, balanced frequency response. As it turned out, this was possible and a BIG success, otherwise you wouldn't be reading this and it would all have remained just an idea that didn't work out.
