Why not horns?

"severely delayed"

How so? Of course I have made many compromises but that's not one of them. My mid-tweets are delayed so I am time aligned.

I've heard many Thiels and countless other box speakers. The bass is not as good and you can't dispute that unless you have heard the alternative.. I bet there aren't a handful of people here who have actually heard a front loaded bass horn of sufficient length and size like mine to properly produce a bass note.. Raise your hands....I'm not talking about rear loaded horns like the folded horns that most Lowthers are mounted in.. Sorry, there is a difference.

Of course there are those who are convinced every bass note will sound like it is coming from a sousaphone. I find that very amusing.

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Herman, not all Thiels produce the same bass either.

You are correct sir !!

However, if you dismiss all horns because you believe they have similar qualities that make them all sound bad then you must believe all box speakers produce sound with similar qualities. Not the that they all sound the same, but a driver in a box is a driver in a box and there is only so much you can do to mitigate that.

HONK !!!

HONK !!!

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' I bet there aren't a handful of people here who have actually heard a front loaded bass horn of sufficient length and size like mine to properly produce a bass note.. Raise your hands.."

I doubt it also.

Hopefully that is not required in order to do it right else the future of horns does not look any brighter.

Weseixas, it sure looks to me like Duke addressed the issues that you had with my last post. I just have one thing to add, and this is true of digital vs analog, tubes vs transistors, horns vs planars, pretty much you name it in audio:

The better the technologies get the more they sound the same and that is simply because the better any technology gets, the more it sounds like real music.

I believe that most horn detractors (which often includes me) are leery of horns due to past bad experiences. However we have to accept that this world offers a large range of experiences, some of which are not available to everyone even if they have been in the field of endeavor for decades. I am now suggesting that while you have heard many horns sound terrible, you have not heard the best horns nor have you heard them with the best supporting equipment that can show them off. I'm going to take it a step further though, to illustrate my comment at the beginning of this paragraph. The same is true for you of planar speakers as well. I am sure that these two statements apply to everyone on this thread.

All we can be really sure of is that the better technologies get, the more they will sound like music and therefore more like each other, not less.