Horn based loudspeakers why the controversy?

Speakers like that are in essence showpiece works of art that also usually happen to sound pretty good.

Not all that much to spend really for a showpiece if that is the kind that is up one’s alley.

For those like me on a budget there is always something like this:

http://www.saksoff5th.com/main/ProductDetail.jsp?PRODUCT%3C%3Eprd_id=845524442303149&site_refer=...

Speaker looks like a Carfrae big horn                        http://img.ukaudiomart.com/uploads/large/1337456-carfrae-big-horn-speakers.jpg

After a couple of weeks with my Klipsch Heresy IIIs, I can say without a doubt that they are great speakers. Partnered with well designed other crap (specifically wires, gizmos, doodads, tweaks, etc.), they sing, and I think the woofer is loosening up (Emincence drivers in my experience, mostly with bass speakers, take a bit to get their mojo…I have an Ampeg cab with a retro 15 that needed prodding)…I put them on 1.5" or so butcher blocks with my Vibrapods (previously used with my Silverline Preludes), and listen to them using my ears. 

I remember Klipsch speakers at a record store in Ithaca when I went to Cornell (late 70's). They really filled the room, which was large.
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dev

I don't believe you ever had a pair of WB's. Take your meds, dev.