What does one purchase after owning horns?

Macrojack, what horns do you have? Be happy, in 40 plus years in audio, I have had eight different horn systems, but not now. I still love their speed and efficiency.

People almost always ignore comments such as Atmasphere's:

"Just to dispel a couple of common myths, Sound Labs are capable of impressive dynamics..."

This was my experience. I was actually, very, very pleasantly surprised at how dynamic they were. Just listening, if one didn't know the technology, I'm not sure that one would know they weren't dynamic/cone speakers.
Surprising.
I'm almost certain that my complaints about 'horn coloration' are also, likely, 'dated' and no longer applicable.
Two complaints have always been...'horn coloration', which I 'claim' to be able to hear that, (to me) characteristic 'horn sound'. That and the 'lack of dynamic' consistency between the horn and the bass 'drivers'.
There's this discontinuity that I've always heard between those different drivers.

So I'll ask--(Duke if he's out there), does this still exist? (Of course, given the great dynamics of the horn drivers, it 'has to exist'to some degree, otherwise the horn isn't doing what horns do). So the remaining question has to be, is it still a negative that's obvious? OR, has it been ameliorated to the point, in terms of 'blend' that it's no longer a fundamental issue? Was it ever? Anyone else hear that??

Just wondering.

Good listening,
Larry

Lrsky, having owned the big Sound Labs and many other electrostats, I don't question that they have 'impressive' dynamics but not the speed of horns, especially compression driver horns.

I should also say that all horn systems lack horn bass systems. Yes, such bass horns are very big.

I don't think we have yet 'blended' different drivers. I well remember Nelson Pass's full-range plasma speaker that landed him in the hospital and made me sick after about 15 minutes. It also had no dynamics. I was, of course, being fanciful in asking for a full-range point source driver with great efficiency. I don't expect this will happen in my lifetime.

"There's this discontinuity that I've always heard between those different drivers."

I've always found matching two radically distinct kinds of drivers (in terms of efficiency and dynamics) in the same system to be inherently problematic, but have not noticed a problem in my admittedly limited exposure to what I would consider to be some of the better horn designs I have heard.

Tbg,
"I don't question that they have 'impressive' dynamics but not the speed of horns..."

Surprising...my Sound Labs were about as fast as I've heard...you're saying that horns are faster?

Just clarifying.

I may need to look at horns very seriously. I wish Duke didn't live in Katmandu...

Good listening,
Larry