Why not horns?

BTW Dale Harder's TLS Walsh speakers can be seen in his posted system here which is also an audiogon "featured" system.

Anyway, back to the real world (and away from theory)...

There is a pair of Klipsch Heresy HBR speakers up for sale on Ebay by a seller in the next town from me that I might be able to pick up and try for not much. I would try these in my wifes sunroom where the Dynaudio monitors are pictured currently in my system listing.

Questions:

- How much are a pair in good working order and condition worth?

- If I do it, what kind of sound should I expect in comparison to a pair of good Dynaudio monitors? BTW the Dyns are rear ported and bass heavy in that room. Speakers in that room have to stay close to the wall. The Heresys seem like a reasonable design to try there in that they are reputably not bass heavy.

If you are thinking of Klipsch, it seems the older they are the better they are. But if the price is right, what the heck. They work OK next to the wall. I think I would go for Altecs first as well.

A few years ago I found a set of Electro Voice Regency 3s for cheap. They needed new wiring and new crossover controls. They are designed to use the corner of the room, that is, you put them all the way into the corner. If you don't do that they will not play bass as the cabinet and corner form a sort of horn. Anyway, I just set them up by the Snell Bs I had at the time. They were immediately more spacious, more dynamic. I expected the greater impact, but the increased resolution and depth of the soundstage floored me. Instruments hung in the air, expressed with great timbrel accuracy, delicacy where it was needed and power where needed as well. In short, played every aspect you wanted out of a speaker better than the Snells, except for the bass.

Since I was never able to put them in the corners, I never found out if that was still true when they were properly set up, but this experience let me know in spades that horns had something to offer.

My room is 12X12 with listening locations out of the typical sweet spot.

This has swayed me away from considering corner horns (Klipschorns mainly) in that room in that speaker locations cannot be tweaked and you generally want to listen from the sweet spot?

Although tucking a pair of big horns into the corners out of the way is the only way big horns would ever make it into my wifes room and even that might be a stretch.