Why not horns?

Unsound !

Post of the month ! Direct and on target mate, if only you had a "bull horn" so he could hear you!

LOL... ........

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06-24-10:
Macrojack, same old story indeed. You offered the paper to support your position, but, you object when others use the same offered paper to support a different position. Never mind that those of us that have found horns unsatisfactory, would not be impressed by "experts" in horn design. You suggest that we seek info from a reliable source. I suppose that means we shouldn't consider you a reliable source. Since you don't have any personal experience with the product your promoting, our "self congratulatory guess" is no worse than yours.

You buy stuff without auditioning, but suggest we shouldn't go off half cocked and buy something without investigation. We should keep our opinions in our imaginations, but you should the have right to post your opinions on this forum.

You suggest that we search for the opinions of strangers to find out if their experiences may(?)contradict the specs that you provided(?), for a product your promoting and many of us wouldn't otherwise be interested in. I did bother to open up and read the information you provided. On some level, I really have don't care to purse these speakers much more. Why should I? Decades of experience has suggested to me that pursing these designs are not likely to bear any fruit, and the information you provided doesn't seem to offer anything to change that. What I was trying to do, was offer my take on the same information, albeit different. Yes, by offering a balanced perspective, I was trying to be helpful.

Unsound - It goes without saying that horns are not for everyone. Can't you go without saying so?
I'm not able to promote the Unity. All I want to do is bring them to the attention of the many who seem to be unaware of the fact that good and desirable horns exist. Those, while not too pretty, do things that you will never get from a dome tweeter box. The design is crazy but the reports are strong and flattering.

Because of the introduction of petty nitpicking and sentence parsing, I suggested quite some time ago that I perhaps should have called this thread "Why Horns?". Would that have made a difference? Would you and Wiseass have withheld your negativity and your attitudes of primacy? Probably not.

You seem fair and rational and well informed. You could be helpful if that was your mien. For reasons that continue to elude, you choose the devil's advocate posture. Whatever floats your boat. Personally, I think the advocate would be looking to unseat the politically assisted, boringly consistent, ad and review driven names that contribute nothing much to the advancement of audio other than new cosmetics and higher prices.

For the most part pro audio delivers much more bang for the buck. Many of their products have no place in a home system but many others can successfully and advantageously cross pollinate. Let's see where that leads.

If it is not your cup of tea, let others enjoy it or at least explore it. Don't just dump it all in the harbor because you don't see much promise in the recipe you read.

Macrojack, perhaps you should consider Newton's third law: basically, for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. If you tempered your posts in such a manner as to edit your biases e.g."...single distortionless driver.." "...seems like a no brainer...""..."...exposes the high end for the rip off it is..." etc.,etc., from appearing as absolutes, perhaps the discussion would appear less like a personal crusade and more like an intellectual forum. I'm not suggesting that you shouldn't voice your subjective opinions, but when you do so, I suggest you frame them as such. I think you'd find that even the subjective discussion would be more objective, and you might feel less personally invested this discussion.

Unsound - The "distortionless driver" comment in my opening is hyperbole and you are not the first to call me on it. "seems like a no brainer" could be chastised as sounding kinda "valley girl" but it clearly stands as nothing more than opinion.
As for the "rip off" comment, I cannot apologize. I think that the pricing of many of the so called statement products are scandalous and most other stuff is unjustifiably priced.
Watt/Puppy 8 speakers are priced about the same as a loaded Camry. Let's not take a detour on that point, however. The only reason I mentioned it is because I think we can find better bang for our buck outside of the reviewer's boutique.

macro,

If I were you, I would temper my unwavering faith and passion with some more objectivity up front.

Objectivity will help get the facts people need to make decisions out on the table. Unwavering faith and passion alone might be persuasive to some, but the reality may come as a shock later.

Just my opinion....