HORNING AGALME LOUDSPEAKERS

This is a serious and unique offer to sell an unused pair of the latest Agalme speakers.  This is the only new and unused pair in the UK. 

Quite possibly the finest, most true to life speakers ever made.  Agalme are for those who know and love the Lowther sound and want it without limitations at the frequency extremes. Tommy Hoerning’s own exact words: “The Agalme is for me the crowning of my effort to make the best solution and is my statement.  There will not come something after this; let alone the huge cost for me to make the Agalme cabinet which gives the best inside movement of sound waves in order to meet the new PM65 driver in the most perfect way.”

The special Horning designed Lowther PM65 drivers are removed from the cabinet for protection and also shipping that way makes it much easier to move the massive weight around as without that cavity there is nothing to hold onto at the front. They have stayed removed since I stored the speakers in my living room. Other than being tested in the factory these speakers have not been played.  The magnetic grills are also set aside and wrapped up as they need to fit around the Lowther for support.

The isobarically loading of the Beyma woofers, six visible, six hidden, provide the necessary conditions for low frequency bass response and fast transients to keep up with the Lowther.  These woofers are the original non-neodymium units for which the cabinet was designed. (More on the subsequent inferior modifications later.)  The speakers are a complex quarter wave design where both the Beymas and the Lowthers combine in a backloaded horn/transmission line, and the tweeter completes the full range frequency response all previous Lowthers never could.  Consequently the design of the folded horn and cabinet is crucial, as is the quality of the cabinet manufacture in such a large and complex structure.  It goes without saying that the horn design is very specific to the drive units.  All Agalme speaker cabinets are the same, and have been designed around these specific Beyma units.  Subsequent replacements by the manufacturer for neodymnium units will automatically yield sub-optimal sound characteristics, as the cabinets were not changed in terms of horn design and length.  Bottom line:  there were very few of these original mkI Agalme speakers ever built, they are expensive to make and will never be available again at anywhere near this price.

Before placing a bid please call me to discuss payment and collection and to clarify any potential issues. The Speakers are located near Aberdeen.  They stand 2m tall and weight over 110kg each and are not easy to handle for inexperienced people who do not have the right skill set.  They are supplied with two heavy wooden crates. Total weight around 300kg.  The basis of this offer is buyer collection and responsibility to build up the crates and arrange pick up and delivery.  The most secure method is door to door specialist delivery.  I am open to further discussion on any level of assistance depending on my workload and location at the time of purchase, and even personal delivery depending on my work commitments.

I will seriously consider an exchange of equipment to help you fund this expensive purchase, and would consider high end audio, car or motorcycle in p/ex. The buyer should consider these speakers as an end-point destination.

For more information on the long standing and tedious situation with the manufacturer then please see the other listing which has more of the history. This explains why I have not played these fine speakers, and why my family will not have anything to do with Tommy Horning. I need to get anything to do with that man out of my life and move on.  That negative baggage does not effect the new buyer.  The product is great and should be used by someone who appreciates realistic sound reproduction without the etched artificiality of hyped-up hifi.

Urgent update November 2023

I sent the following compromise offer to Tommy Hoerning this month, and copied Iain Bortwick at Willow Tree Audio (Horning UK agent) and Jeff Catalano at High Water Sound (Horning USA agent) for complete transparency. I am waiting on a response.

I also supplied the two agents Tommy Hoerning’s emails urging me to buy the turntable and phono stage, and also the prices Tommy proposed. Everything is fully transparent, nothing hidden, no anomolies. There has also been suggested a mechanism by which Tommy can compensate me purely by an exchange of goods without actually needing to find the money - should he so wish. I'll make it known later especially if there are delays. I want everyone to know that I have been beyond reproach with this man, and also offer his agents an excellent opportunity to grow their business.

I have given them a second chance to make the business honest so as to ensure reliable income from honest clients, but also to protecting the value of Horning goods on the used market. I want owners of Horning equipment to benefit from a brand which has done the right and proper thing.

Nobody, but nobody, want to buy from a dishonest business. This is their last chance to put their house in order, and establish what are excellent products in a wider market place of decent audiophiles.

Dear Tommy

Eleven years ago we started my order for a turntable and a phono stage of retail value around 27,000 Euro at an agree price with you (see your email below>.  I paid 60% of the price in advance, and the balance just before delivery.  All monies were paid into your company account of Horning Hybrid Systems v/Anne Mette Biehe at the registered address of your own home, at Lykkensdalvej 125.

However you did not deliver, as you know.  Despite my years of chasing, you still have not  delivered.  And your agents in the UK are writing to me all week as if I was the bad and very evil man. I think they are very angry with you. Very angry.  I can almost feel their anger now.

Let me finish this ordeal for you and your agents.  I am willing to suggest a compromise, in the absence of any sensible conversation from you or your agents - and this can only be beneficial to you.

It is clear you cannot produce the two items I purchased and as you promised in the email below.

I will accept far cheaper replacement items and then we call the agreement settled.

The items are a Chinese made DAC, and a phono stage both supplied by your agents in the UK.  You buy them and deliver them to me.  Your agents may give you a discounted price if you are very polite with them.  I would estimate it will cost you around 8-10K max. 

That is far less then I paid you without considering the interest payments over these long years, and without considering the value of the turntable and phono stage from our agreement.The potential benefits of this simple solution is immeasurable to you and your agents.

It is pointless cutting off your own nose, and the noses of your agents, just to spite me.  At our age we have surely out grown such juvenile behaviour and someday this game of yours has to end.  Best to make the decision yourself rather than have your destiny decided for you.

What do you say?

===================================