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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?
128x128johnk
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roxy54
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kosst_amojan says:

"If you're listening to a pair of Klipsch, you're listening to a speaker that incorporates every failing he (Linkwitz) points out."

What Linkwitz doesn't point out is that in spite of all these failings, they sound damn good! It's frustrating when reality trumps science. 

bassdude
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I challenge you to get a pair of Linkwitz Orions or LX521s, or Legacy Audio Aeris’s and see if science is not, indeed, reality!
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roxy54
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bassdude,

I'm in no way trying to say that those and many other similar speakers aren't world-class. I am just poking fun at the silliness of using science based arguments to prove that something,(in this case, speakers) isn't good when in actual use, it really is.

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wolf_garcia
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Otherwise, I think Linkwitz is pretty cool if only based on an interview I saw someplace…Youtube maybe. His speaker designs with the tube loading are interesting.
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