Why not horns?

Hey everyone, MrD again. This thread intrigues me so much, because I really love my set up. Yes, I own horns. I have spent many years buying and selling, trying this and trying that, listening to this and listening to that. From these experiences, I have determined what I want a system to do for me. My system is not for background music. My system is to transport me to an illusion of "what I think" is the real thing. Be it rock, classical or jazz. A piano must sound like a piano,sax like a sax,violin like a violin,drums like drums, voices clear and articulate. Can I follow the artistry of each and every musician, starting and stopping on a dime. Does Berry Oakley, Butch Trucks and JJ Johanson carry the tempo and rhythm to make my feet tap. To make my head nod up and down. When Duane and Dicky are strutting their stuff and Gregg is pulling it all together, I am in the audience. They are playing for me. My system has disappeared and has created a lifelike representation of being there. Sound stage has height, width and depth. From an incredibly black, noiseless background, to amazing shadings of micro and macro dynamics, this is what recorded music should sound like. My speakers were designed by a brilliant designer and engineer, for "live sound" reinforcement. I feel blessed that I was able to afford them, to have a room that can accommodate them and to have a wife that puts up with all of it. Thanks again for listening to my rant....

Herman, just to be clear here: I don't know the actual impedance of the drivers in the Duo, but in a case where the minimum impedance is 8 ohms, I would expect most amplifiers will have the voltage response to handle that. Its when you go from 19 or so down to 4 ohms that many smaller tube amps are challenged. So- I think we agree on this one :)

Pretty broad spectrum of feelings about horns - all the way from love to hate. It seems to be a subject that is unresolved for most of us. If you are one who feels like he'd like to explore horn ownership, what keeps you from making the move?

A cd recording from 1984 on the Denon/Nippon Columbia Japan label : Eddie Gomez : 38C38-7189 - 9 tracks - A recording , inho, where many systems fail.....it is jazz and has it all.....I love my horns !

Herman... Sound radiates as a spherical wavefront (except as interrupted by walls). At the distance of the listener or microphone the spherical wavefront is nearly a flat plane. The microphone samples this wavefront at a point, and a planar speaker sends it on to the listener as a plane, almost the same as the original wavefront. How better to reproduce a planar wavefront than by a planar transducer?

The diaphram of a planar speaker (like a Maggie) uses stratigically placed mass to damp resonances, but these low frequency anomalies are easier to correct than the high frequency resonances of horns.