What does one purchase after owning horns?

Pointless indeed, Drubin. It basically just comes down to asking which religion is best. World news reports are a good indicator of what sort of answers that discussion can yield.

Around here you can be crucified for disparaging tubes or liking horns or knocking Diana Krall.

In other places you might be stoned. (Not that kind of stoned)

So what's the answer? Stop talking about it altogether? That would make for a very ho hum fo rum. Wouldn't it?

knocking Diana Krall? I wouldn't mind....OOP

I have always limited my self to talking about my experiences and making few generalizations beyond that. I think in these days of no dealers, this is as best as I can do. It is also the best reviewers can do.

Larry, I too like a nice flat frequency response. I'm not happy with it if I hear deviations or rolloffs at the extremes. So my system is a hybrid- horns on top and bass reflex woofers on the bottom.

One thing about perceived frequency response though, that ought to be considered:

The human ear perceives distortion as frequency response variation. This is why two amps can measure flat on the bench but tonally sound very different.

Atmasphere,
I told this story one other time, but some haven't read it...so please bear with me.
Jim Thiel, (yes, I'm summoning him again) one time showed me how he used to plot the frequency response of his prototypes, early on, before all the sophistocation of measurement stuff, (or maybe before THIEL had the resources to afford it, again maybe).
He'd play one tone (reference, at say 440Hz)at three levels, soft, medium and loud. Then he would play another frequency, at those same reference levels, say 80, 85, 89 db and ask which level the newest tone was being played at.
So, say I heard 440Hz at 85db, then I might hear 12Khz at 80 or maybe 89db, or obviously, even the same 85db. With the human hearing curve being what it is, we obviously perceive mid's at a greater volume, so the test is tough for almost everyone.
At first blush, this may sound easy, but it is really confusing to most people. I say, most, because of the 20 examples of this, I got them all right--he'd not had anyone do this before.
So, I suppose that this innate 'gift' (curse maybe) of mine, being able to hear these relationships easily, makes me more sensitive to tonal balance variance, hence the comments about tonal balance up a few posts ago.
Seriously, I've GOT to hear some horns, just to revisit...Duke, if you ever want to have a Beta Test Site...send me a pair...I'll write a Harry Pearson quality, prosaic piece and be honest to a fault.

Dynamics are fun--but missing in most loudspeakers, that's a fact.

Good listening,
Larry