opinions on modern horn speakers

over 99% of all music recorded from 1960 through today was(and is) played back, mixed,and mastered using push pull amplification and conventional dynamic drivers. the idea of an artist, engineer or producer spending hour,days,and weeks listening to music through a horn, powered by a 3 watt amp is always going to be something best left to a faction of audiofiles seaching for musical enjoyment...and theres certainly nothing wrong with that.

JRD .I do quite a bit of work in studios .Alot have horns for main monitoring or at least the tweeters are horns .Also horns use dynamic drivers .FYI

Aroc ,owned the abby, nice speaker for $1500. I helped U.V.A. become a cain dealer ,but they are weak in the bass and highs . Dont know what you mean by split your skull open .Maybe they have too much dynamic range for you or where demo to loud [happens alot at shows].No sound stage??? My horns sound so real the artists are right in front of you if thats where the producer mixed them .I have a solid 19ft sound stage on most recordings way better than my martin logans ,sound labs or maggies could do .Still perfer planars. I used too till I purchased good horns .Also senile ?? Iam only 38, hope its not happening allready .lol.Thxs for your reply

i work with every major studio and lab in greater los angeles to some degree, and i've had the dog and pony show at each one of them...i've never seen any horn in any room with the exception of some older jbl hybrid designs or ones used for public address systems(and they were all dormant).....i'm not knocking modern horn designs. i happen to admire some... i just know that for the vast majority of music lovers they will always be an oddity.

JRD alot of the studios I have been to use TAD ,Seems to many studios use those terible yamahas ,I love it when they cover up the tweeters .LOL