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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?
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kiddman
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"05-22-10: Shadorne
The very best horn designs run at about 3% THD when played loud and this will distortion is audible and in treble."

Now where did that come from? The best horns are a lot lower than that figure. Please document where "the best horns" are this high in distortion.

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quad-man
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Horns are natures amplifier.

A horn loudspeaker done right is hard to beat on many levels some of there attributes being: better dispersion than non-horns, 5dB increase in bass, can be used to increase a driver set efficiency, look cool.
isochronism
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Does anyone happen to have any experience with JBL 4550 speaker systems? I do find a few owner/user pictures of their rigs featuring such on the web (images) and they only direct to sites in Japanese or Chinese.
kiddman
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The above reference to Art Dudley's article on sucky bass is a valuable post referencing one of the great articles that I have read on the state of speakers as well as the psychology of audiophiles and their speaker choices (that has led to some truly overrated and overpriced speakers nevertheless sell.
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mapman
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I like the looks of the new JBL Studio 530 monitors. Would like to hear them.
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