What does one purchase after owning horns?

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

Larry, If I get what you are saying, you have even more reason to check out horns. Regular dome tweeters don't handle very much power (2 watts is common). Most horn tweeters handle about the same power, but are *also* lot more efficient, effectively making them able to handle a lot more material than any dome tweeter ever could.

Atmasphere,

Why do you say a dome tweeter cant handle more than 2 watts. I have done sweeps at 1,2,5,10.15,30 watts and never any deviation in it's curve, step or impulse response.

Drivers:

1. Dynaudio
2. Morel

All systems were tested as such before leaving the factory ..

Regards,