To horn or not to horn

Mr Decibel. The thing that I notice about horns is, one can just about measure how far the microphone is from the recorded object. Most music is "mixed" into a composit recording. Horns and even a good direct radiator system can delineate each track in that summed recording, different microphones used for each track. Somebody made the statement while listening to a horn system, "it sounds like I am in the throat of the singer". Probably a close miked vocal track?

 One needs to take a good bit of care in setup if using a massive horn in a smaller space but once done they can be an amazing performer. But what comes fairly easy for me since I've done so many may be harder for others. I would suggest if your not liking how your horn system sounds in the room its in I wouldn't just blame it on being too large for the space and may be look at other reasons why. 

You might want to read my forum...Horn Speaker Suggestions.  I went through a very long process before deciding on horn speakers.  Never in a million years did I think I would end up with horn speakers.  I listened to tons of very high end non horn speakers before deciding on Viking Acoustic Grande Voix speakers.  What sold me was the clarity of sound. I love hearing each instrument and that is what horn speakers do for me.

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I have this hunch Horns will work for me.
Days ago, i got ina  6.5 FR and hooked it up without cabinet!!!! next to the Seas Thors 
Like night and day. 
The SEAS line of drivers  are out dated, = Dinasaurs next toa  FR. Scan Speak drivers also, out dated, Dinasaurs.
FR is the only speaker i could ever listen to, I needa  horn for top end.
Richard Gray just wrote saying he loves horns for what they do right, but hates horns for what they do bad =???? 
Have no idea what Richard is trying to say.
Traditional tweeters  <91db below) will not work for me, hate em,. 
IMHO a  speaker has to be at the very least 91db. Which means 90% of the conventional/traditional xover speakers will not work for me.
I thought the world of my SEAS Thors 87 db, ,,then the FR 6.5 blew em away.
My guess is horns will blow away any ribbon/cone tweet.
I've read comments bashing horns, yet these critics can not give one substantial reason why NOT horns.. its all blab, blab blab. 
Their 2 cents won't buy a  Star Bucks cup of coffee thats for sure.
I'm going horn tweet.  For all its good and bad, it will beat out any Scan Speak, SEAS high priced tweets, by a mile.
The Golden Rule in speakers is <<<SENSITIVITY>> Sens is EVERYTHING. The higher the sens, the superior the voicing. 
This ain't rocket science folks. 
I am speaking about using tube (push pull, SET etc)amps  , this does not concern ss amplification. 

I am speaking about using tube (push pull, SET etc)amps , this does not concern ss amplification.

Horns can work just fine with solid state as well. But it had better be good solid state, not the kind that is bright and harsh.

I think that a listener's preference for horns (assuming that they are good ones) will be in good part based on how much they value realistic dynamics, and the sense of ease that horn loudspeakers display.

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Trust me, conventional xover tweeters do not offer much of anything good, AT least not when you A/B trad tweets next to a  horn tweet. 
IMHO the FR and compression drivers will be the only drivers used in audiophile speakers. 
Its just a  matter of time.
All speakers under 91db  requiring xovers will be deleted and go the route of the Dinasaurs. 
Its only a  matter of time before old  crusty and hadened ideas will die away.
Audiophiles think the world of their speaker,, Then when they geta  cahnce to A/B their <,beloved>> speaker next toa  FR+ TI Horn combo,, its at this point they know they;'ve been <Had>> all the years, Scammed,  = Sold on  snakeoil