Horn based loudspeakers why the controversy?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrxwudn7C4w&t=2327s Siegfried Linkwitz is complaining about conventional designs and he even is holding up a model of a conventional ported monitor complaining about its design one would have to be daft to think he is ripping on horn tech I would suggest if he gives this link so much regard he should buy one of his madisound kits. phusis said earlier {In essence: the controversy surrounding "horns," as I see it, has more to do with misinformation, confusion of definition, convenience and habitual bias than any actual assessment of a pair of true horn speakers} if the shoe fits.

Siegfried Linkwitz is the guy out there making foolishness out of all the "narrow dispersion is good" silliness. Maybe it's good in a PA, but not a living room. This crowd here deliberately avoids and ignores anything that disagrees with their OPINIONS. That's the source of this controversy.

I'd be careful about making the association between 'narrow dispersion' and 'all horns'. I've had various box and planar speakers; my current setup uses horns and images as well as anything I've heard. My living room is about 15' wide.

I cannot believe the horn troll is still at it. Gee, maybe I should listen to her, and get rid of my modified Klipsch Lascalas. NOT !

Whatever Klipsch was thinking about when designing the current version of the Heresys, they got it right. I'm sensitive to coherence in speaker systems as that's the most important quality for my tastes, and these speakers are absolutely coherent, as well as having great dispersion qualities…better phase plugs? Better horn throat design? Better care in manufacturing as Hope, Arkansas wants to spread happiness everywhere? I've said before that the way speakers actually sound is important to me (!), and I'm picky about this stuff.