I'm a speaker designer too and I listened to a horn/hybrid system for 10 years. (TAD 15 inch woofer/TAD horn and tweeter).
There is nothing wrong with horns as a high end loudspeaker. I even used mine with ss amplification.
The distortions levels from using the compression driver (in my case) were incredibly low. I'm talking about distortions due to operating the drivers at 2 percent of what they were made to do in terms of spl, or something equivalent.
That said, I've gone back to cones and domes and I don't really miss the horns. There are pluses and minuses, but properly made they are a 100 percent valid approach toward a speaker.
There is nothing wrong with horns as a high end loudspeaker. I even used mine with ss amplification.
The distortions levels from using the compression driver (in my case) were incredibly low. I'm talking about distortions due to operating the drivers at 2 percent of what they were made to do in terms of spl, or something equivalent.
That said, I've gone back to cones and domes and I don't really miss the horns. There are pluses and minuses, but properly made they are a 100 percent valid approach toward a speaker.