horn or line array?


they are here or we are there? i usually listen to jazz what is more match to my listening style?
fac

Having owned a Audiostore for a decade , first what size is your room , your music taste and budget , for example a maggi 3.7  you want to be several feet from the front and side walls , the Martern logan stats like theEvo series not as critical 

and has powered bass with bass EQ built in , horns like Klipsch can be good for example but beamy, sound absorption ,rugs, 1st reflections , bass buster corner panels ,Everythung has to be considered ,for glass is horrible and hard reflective, plants are good.

and the quality of the product, myselfhaving modding Loudspeakers for 20+ years 

inside the ❤️ or the 🧠 of a loudspeaker is the Xover and most speakers under $15k have at best average parts meaning out of a 15 rating scale a 6 or 7  which robs you of everythung ,Solen is a big mfg favorite for capacitors ranking a 7.

go to humble homemade Hifi capacitor  test you will see what I mean  ,resistors,inductors too . If I knew your brands I could tell you good or bad for your setup ,electronics too should have synergy with your speakers , cables too  count 

it’s not that cut and dry I have been in Audio over 40 years and have learned a lot 

many times by trial and error and a boat load of $$.

@fac I have owned both and while I enjoyed line array, they are costly (mine had a $10,000 MSRP ~ 10 years ago; integrating the XO is an art. There is no better time alignment than from concentric drivers. I have owned Emerald Physics 3.4s for ~ 3 years (see my virtual system), amazingly is how huge the sound staging is

HTH

The very best sounding systems I've heard were horn-based systems either using original Western Electric drivers or G.I.P. reproductions of such drivers.  This means truly ancient technology, basically, early 1930s drivers.  Most of the systems were modern assemblies using these ancient parts (or replicas of these ancient parts).  The big downside is the size of these systems. 

For one of them, each speaker was about nine feet tall, almost five feet wide, and about five feet deep.  The drivers were new G.I.P. drivers that retail for about $120,000.  On top of that would be the fees for designing and building, the very expensive crossover utilizing original Western Electric parts, the wiring (I believe the wires were a mix of Western Electric wire and Audio Note Sogon (meaning wiring well north of $20k), and the custom-built power supplies for the field coil magnets of these drivers.  

My much more modest horn-based system has only one horn component, a midrange compression driver and a sectoral horn.  I don't have horn-loaded bass drivers, my bass drivers are modern, but old school alnico magnet drivers with pleated paper surrounds (12" drivers), with two bass drivers per channel in an Onken bass reflex cabinet.  My tweeters are bullet tweeters (horn waveguide, but not a compression driver).

But, I have also heard very nice speakers of all sorts of types, including very good panel and line array speakers.  The giant Sound Labs electrostatic panel speakers are quite good.  Likewise, the Arion Acoustics line array speakers, while quite pricey, are terrific too.  For more realistically priced line array speakers, I like Maggies, such as the 3.7.