To horn or not to horn

Of mainstream horns, Klipsch are the worst and to me are unlistenable without mods

Bet you haven't heard any lately..........

HORN! Yes to horn... My first experience was as a teenager in the 70's. Klipsch Cornwall's, and to me the sound was so sweet and so "life like". Since then I've owned many different types of great sounding speakers. But, I still prefer horns and listen to them daily...

I didn’t like horns at all, based mostly on opinions I’d heard from others. I’d never bothered to find a way to give them a good listen. Then one day years ago I was at an audio show. It was when Stereophile was still doing audio shows. The show was almost over when I walked into a large room with lots of people in it. The exhibitor, whose name was Jeff (can’t remember the last name) was standing in front of a pair of large horn speakers. 
He put on a vinyl copy of Pink Floyd’s “The Wall”. He cued up “Another Brick in the Wall” and turned the volume up to lease break. I’ve never before or since heard that music sound so good. I mean, it was alive in that room. Jeff was bouncing up and down, people were playing air guitars, it was wonderful. That experience alone taught me what a great horn speaker can do. The speakers were Avantgarde.

willgolf533 posts04-20-2020 9:26pmYou might want to read my forum...Horn Speaker Suggestions.  I went through a very long process before deciding on horn speakers.  Never in a million years did I think I would end up with horn speakers.  I listened to tons of very high end non horn speakers before deciding on Viking Acoustic Grande Voix speakers.  What sold me was the clarity of sound. I love hearing each instrument and that is what horn speakers do for me.

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Just curious
were any high tech WBers (aka fullrange point source) speakers in your exp vs the horns?
Names of labs you heard.
Such as Fostex, Mark Audio, AER, Voxativ, DavidLouis, Tang band,  Cube and others.

In my previous post on this thread I called my Bill Fitzmaurice  designed bass horns 25Hz 1/8 wave corner horns.  They are instead 25Hz 1/4 wave horns.  Just a brain fart I suppose.  I wish we could edit posts on this forum.