Why not horns?

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.

Eldartford. What resonances are you speaking of ? I ask you all. Does your system have qualities of a live ,unamplified venue ? Live music does not "damp" anything. I am not clear of what you speak..... I truly believe many of you horn haters have not heard a "proper" horn set up. A shame, really....