Why not horns?

would the old JBL L300 be considered horn type speakers. I owned those for about 10 yrs

Here's a spec sheet on your JBL L-300 Summit speakers:

http://www.lansingheritage.org/images/jbl/specs/home-speakers/1975-l300/page4.jpg

It had a mid-range horn covering from 800 Hz. to 8500 Hz.

Thanks, Macrojack.

In times past I misjudged your honest enthusiasm to have a commercial motivation, and gave you grief about it. I'm sorry about that. Nowadays I just enjoy your enthusiasm, especially when we agree!

Duke

05-23-10: Eldartford
If you want violins to sound like trumpets, get horns.
On the other hand for, Dixieland Jazz, a horn speaker is ideal.

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Actually, from personal experience some horns sound very good on all types of music, and I've not heard Ms Hahn or Ms mutter playing a trumpet with a bow. Perhaps you have?

Radio Shack's top the line speaker for years when I worked there was the famous Mach One, which was a horn hydrid design. I never cared much for those and used to steer people away. As I recall, they did sound like a lot of the bad stereotypes of how horns sound. They used to sit prominently right in the front of almost every Radio Shack store in the country. I suspect these helped to give horns a bad name. Some of the other Realistic gear was OK though BTW.