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Horn based loudspeakers why the controversy?

As just another way to build a loudspeaker system why such disputes in forums when horns are mentioned?    They can solve many issues that plague standard designs but with all things have there own.  So why such hate?  As a loudspeaker designer I work with and can appreciate all transducer and loudspeaker types and I understand that we all have different needs budgets experiences tastes biases.  But if you dare suggest horns so many have a problem with that suggestion..why?
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johnk OP
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  • -Why do dynamic loudspeakers practically own the speaker market at every price point? Cheap and easy to design, ship, market, manufacturer. Why do bud light coors light and miller lite own the beer market? Because that is what the mass market wants does that make bud light the best beer ever because it owns the market maybe but for me I prefer other more flavorful options.
ikecarumba
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One advantage of horns suitable for home listening is narrow dispersion.

Wide dispersion is not good for center-chair listening. Horns beam like lasers, and to me this is a good thing, fewer nasty sidewall reflections.

I am not into wide-dispersion party speakers. 

My DIY 3.5-way hybrid dipole-conical horn+ field coil driver system images better than ANY conventional 'wide-dispersion' speakers, narrow or wide baffle, single driver or multiway I've ever heard.

My hybrid-horn system does spooky 3-D realistic imaging. Extreme low level detail retreival. Startling dynamic contrast. All the audiophile goodies.

Seems to me you've never heard a really good horn system. Too bad.


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 I could be wrong but a bit of research shows klipsch and jbl to be 4th and 5th in US speaker sales num. 

ikecarumba
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The post above was meant for kosst_amojen, in reply to his comments about dispersion on page 3 `zbeing necessary for good imaging. Don't know why it didn't post on the same page.

Anyhow, wide dispersion don't help imaging. At all.


mrdecibel
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Kosst, you said this : " Sure, there's things they could do better, but I like what they do and they work well in the space I have ". A comment you made about your Focals. I could really talk about, in so many ways, why they " are not for me ". But I don't. Enjoy, and be merry with what you have. You are a troll.
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