What does one purchase after owning horns?

Although you are a living and shining example of the Peter Principle.

I think there's even a bit of John Gabriel's theory at work right here on this illuminating thread as well.

I read a post a while back on another site that is worth reflecting on in all of this, who's worshiping the right speaker God, talk:

(big snip from larger post by DeadEars on Head-Fi.org)Language is really an imperfect tool for describing subjective reality. My audio system presents a set of stimuli (as does wine) which my brain interprets as a musical event. But of course it is simply an illusion, not really true, since I don't have live musicians playing in front of me. And who is to say that my illusion is better than your illusion? Hey it's happening in my head, right?

Thank you Audiopheil and Jax2. Support never hurts !

Audiokinesis. Excellent observation and well to the point. Thank you !

Is it just me? I read the title of this thread, "What does one purchase after owning horns?", and thought the owner was looking for alternatives to horns but a speaker that retained many of the great things the OP likes about horns?

(and English is my first language...)

However somehow we ended up with a toddlers fight in a sandbox? I wonder how any of this is intended to help the OP or is it simply an outlet for those with anger management issues and baggage/agendas from previous threads (the last sandbox fight)?

Renmeister, there is a "free lunch" available when combining low-damping-factor specialty tube amplifiers and speakers designed to work well with such. The low damping factor in effect changes the woofer's electrical damping in a way that increases bass output relative to what you'd get with a solid state amp. If the speaker designer anticipated this, he has tuned the box so that instead of the lower damping factor giving you a bass hump, it gives you more extended low bass.

Aside from dynamics, one of the things a good horn speaker does well is radiation pattern control, and as a result the reverberant energy in the room usually has a similar spectral balance to the first-arrival sound. This is one of the ways in which a good horn system emulates the behavior of live instruments, and is generally not a characteristic of more conventional speakers (though as one might anticipate from my post just upthread, there are exceptions!). I believe that minimizing the spectral discrepancy between the direct and reverberant sound reduces listening fatigue, and can explain why if anyone is interested.