Are horn speaker colored or more open and dynamic?

Wellfed,

I'll pass along the compliment to my wife. Very kind of you. She is a wonder, really. I always say that if I could have designed a wife according to my specs, I would have fallen far short of the one I have. She takes every passion I have and makes it her own.
Howard

Wellfed and Ejlif, I noticed that you both use Walker hi def links in your systems. How do you like them and what is the benefit of using them? I've been curious. I have both a single driver and also a planar system. Best-Gary

Gmele, the Walker links reduced the noise floor in my system as well as removing some distortion noticeable in the high frequencies. The improvements noted actually were in relation to my previous speakers; NEAR 50Me II's. When upgrading to Köchel speakers I did not bother to recheck my results which I really should do one of these days.

pure horn gives you nothing except voice.
i listened to Avantgarde Unos and they were on the list of the first horn system i liked. still would realy never stand them against good dynamic speakers for sure...

From what I own and what I have heard, the horn speakers are not really colored. I would say that they're less exaggerated and give listener more control over how they want to listen via both active and passive crossovers.
Due to the larger and more open sound, the lower frequency is not as well define due to the open enclosure. That's why some folks prefer to match horn speakers with subwoofers with seperate amplication. However, the listening experience is very different from the conventional cone speakers. Once you heard, it is hard to live with conventional speakers. If there is no size and space restriction then I would go with horn speakers for more versatility ( especially for large orchestra, opera type of music )

Just my 2 cents