Why not horns?

I am planning on testing the Faital pro 2" compression driver in a horn in the next few weeks. The Faital driver is considered the best compression driver that US Speaker sells (according to Al, the owner of usspeaker) with a very flat response 500hz-18khz and ultra low distortion. It will be crossed over with an active 48dB slope to my 18" drivers, which will handle below 500hz (and they do so QUITE well).

They will be good competition for my 15" Audio Nirvana Full-Range drivers, which I found to be some of the best speakers I've ever heard regardless of price.

My system is a high-resolution DSP-based system with amplification of my own design. If the horns are distorting I'll know it right off the bat.

I'll post back with my findings once I get around to putting this project together.

I've thought these to be interesting:

Cardersound

Any comments?

A lot $ for fostex fe126e. Check out horn shoppe you could buy near 2 new pair http://www.thehornshoppe.com/ I had a few customers use this type of treatment on rare fe206esr. Owners had to replace drivers. Buyer beware.

I only received half of my order (only one driver) so I'm waiting on the other Faital Pro HF20AT driver. That being said, this single driver in mono sounds the most like real music of any speaker I've ever heard regardless of price.

I have it attached to my active XO crossing over at 500hz. The sound is incredibly clear and uncompressed. Even from a single speaker in mono the speaker totally disappears and sounds 20x its size. I am like a kid at christmas waiting for the second driver to arrive. Couldn't be more thrilled with this driver -- then again it's the most expensive CD on the market.

http://www.usspeaker.com/Faital%20Pro%20HF20AT-1.htm

http://www.prosoundservice.com/m9_view_item.html?m9:item=BC-DCX50

I am confident in the claims you make about your new compression driver which I linked above. The other link is my driver. Aside from the fact that mine is a coax, they seem pretty similar.