Why not horns?

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.

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.

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.

I like the looks of the new JBL Studio 530 monitors. Would like to hear them.

I'm in the process of building a pair of fully active, altered JBL 4345. I'm subbing in 2206 12" midrange and 2390 horn assembly. Ian Kackenzie on the Lansing Heritage site gave me the recipe. I have a 16X30 room for them so I think they'll still be able to rip my head off! It will be my first experience with JBL. Hope I survive.