Horn based loudspeakers why the controversy?

" I do think the Heresy IIIs aren’t so great for near field listening"

@wolf_garcia ,

I can't say for sure about the Heresy III but the HI and HII are great for near field listening, IMO.  I think that is what I am most intrigued about these speakers.  In both my rigs(Heresy I and Heresy II), I sit at one corner of a 6' x 6' x 6' equilateral triangle and feel truly immersed in the music.  Great imaging and soundstage with plenty of thump.

Bill

My Heresy III are about 9 feet apart... the sweet spot is in the middle 10 feet away, but i often sit in the corner about 7 feet away and the soundstage is still huge and the imaging is very good.   They are toed in just a bit and it actually sounds pretty good no matter where you sit.  The room is 17 x 15 ,  these speakers are the perfect size.  

After many small monitor / sub systems I am really enjoying these .... the mid bass impact and the way a bass guitar or kick drum sounds through these is impossible to achieve with small drivers.  I've owned many fine monitors and they just can't get the lower registers right.

By "near field" I mean something like the monitors I use for recording that are right there above the desk a few feet away…but otherwise, 6' does seem like it would work with Heresy speakers from any era and man, the immersion thing just sounds cool.  I also like the 12" speaker in these things and wondered what its impedance is as I could stick a guitar speaker in there for fun…a pair of old JBL K120s would look bad ass, but I assume the Heresy III woofer was designed for that speaker specifically (I was told it's by Eminence, who make a zillion different drivers including a supposedly 400 watt 15" I have in a bass amp).

Kosst_amojan:

i have an architect who knows what he’s doing. We are not going full blown passive house, and there will be an air exchange system. Windows will open and close, etc. That said, tighter buildings are the future. When we started out, our house was twice as efficient as required by code. Code is catching up, now we are only maybe 25% to 50% more efficient. 

I don't post often since these forums tend to be way to opinionated. Listening to music is as individual as choosing your spouse, pet, car, etc. and I wished everyone would simply understand that.
Anyway, I owned an Edgarhorn Titan system for 13 happy years. I got intrigued with the dynamics in music as that is what I hear live and nothing does dynamics like a properly designed horn system. In a word, they can be a lot of fun if you take the time to get them set-up properly.
I started the horn journey with a pair of Avantgarde Duos and I could not get the bass to integrate as a hybrid. My room did not mess well with them but that was me and nothing to say bad as they still have a loyal following. Take a look at the gallery page on Avantgarde website and note that the Asian/European crowd love them.
Still intrigued by the dynamics, I attended 2004 CES and heard the Edgarhorns with an 845 Cyrus Brennaman SET amplifier rated at 45 WPC. Bruce was playing some classical music (and other) with an analog set-up and people in the room were simply entrenched...including me. No one was leaving the session and the room was full. One couple was wiping tears from their eyes. I have never witnessed that again at any show and likely never will. It was all about the music when done right.
After owning them, I did some mods. over the years and my favorite driving amplifier was a 45 Jeff Korneff SET.  It will always be with me that the heating vents in my 15 year old house would shake using a 2WPC amp. on those few of times I would get up the nerve to let them roll.
I sold them because I simply got tired with my space constraints in a 15 X 20 room and the careful amount of set-up due to noise floor restrictions of the 107 DB efficiency. In a larger room they would have been a world beater. 
Don't take these comments that horns are a bad design but can be if not done proper like every speaker out there. They just take more attention to space and more time to perfect. They do some things way better than anything else made especially if you like dynamic swing to the music.
I found them a pure joy and will never regret owning them. 
Once again listening to music is a personal thing so those that don't like horns please remember there are plenty that do. In the end, to each his own.