Why not horns?


I've owned a lot of speakers over the years but I have never experienced anything like the midrange reproduction from my horns. With a frequency response of 300 Hz. up to 14 Khz. from a single distortionless driver, it seems like a no-brainer that everyone would want this performance. Why don't you use horns?
macrojack
Hello Duke,

Thanks for the answer in regards to the horn types.

06-30-10: Audiokinesis wrote :

On another subject, I don't think mocking someone's moniker is productive,

We:

Please , do tell when this was done , i have only answered questions and charges, never mocked anyone's moniker IME, unless responding to such....

Point noted !

Regards,
Also, I'd like to see more info from other horn product gurus, makers and affectionados to add a bit more variety.

Not gonna' happen. Just go back and read this thread. Thirteen pages of very, very little value. (Sorry John, Duke, and Ralph.) From some of those gurus. . .

"It's the same old story, those who've heard/owned high quality horns praise them, those who haven't put them down. Not worth sorting through it IMO. "

"Humorous too, in that often the strength of an opinion seems inversely related to any first hand knowledge or experience of the subject."

"It would be a waste of time. Those who are already convinced that they hate horns won't be converted, those who know better don't need converting. "
'Thirteen pages of very, very little value. "

Well, for me, there is only so much can conclude about how something sounds by discussing it, even if in great technical detail.

You have to hear it. Unfortunately, a web site cannot provide any indication of what the stuff talked about really sounds like.
I learned a few things: some horn enthusiasts are interested in time coherence, some horn enthusiasts will use digital manipulation, some horn enthusiasts use high powered ss amps, many if not most of the horn enthusiasts on this thread use either custom or modified horns. While I'm not surprised that that would happen, I'm a bit surprised that it showed up in what I would imagine to be a small sampling.