Duke oris is tactrix, your right about wave guides I see many monitors using shallow guides. The only time I heard the cuped hand sound is from a old edison theater horn that I installed a 2in driver in sounds fun loud very very directional but does have the cupped hand sound but its a primitive horn designed to make the most out of edison cylinders.Not hifi just so folks in back could hear the talkies.Could these myths about modern horn sound come from so long ago? I just dont hear this honk, cupped hands etc that folks say modern horns produce and since I have built and tried so many types designs transducers think I would of run into it;)