To horn or not to horn

I love all loudspeakers types horns just do more things performance-wise that I prefer sure they may not be for an amateur but if done right horns are one of the better ways to great sound. But the sad thing is audiophile products are not the best place to search for performance in horns the good ones are costly as a home and most are so hamstrung by bean counters and lifestyle design to be not worthy of consideration. Most who say they hate horns have very little experience with horns in a home setting and I can see why not many available of quality for home use and ones that are are rare and costly. If one wants horns and high performance you will need to educate yourself and may have to do a bit of setup at the least. With horns, full horn loading is the best way but its also the largest way. If the horn speaker has a woofer in a box under it you have not heard a horn system at all. 

Cupped hands effect is BS only horns I heard that sound like that are old metal victrola horns. It's just one of the many horn myths [like all horns honk] that 1950s salesmen used to talk mono horn owners into small weak stereo speakers.  But just don't mention bass distortion thermal compression and distortion at higher SPL to non-horn owners they just don't seem to hear it or do they? I hear many monitor and slim tower owners say after 30-45 mins of listening they had enough-enough thermal compression that is. 

The JBL system mentioned above can be used in homes I would redo the networks for home use. One needs to take a good bit of care in setup if using a massive horn in a smaller space but once done they can be an amazing performer. I have 2 systems set up using dual 15" in front horns and one with a 15" in massive 1000lb tar-covered J horns. I use one such system in my office as a computer speaker. It smoked my costly Morel carbon monitors and fancy Fostex Magnesium domed floor standers. My wife even asked me to reinstall the horns.

 One needs to take a good bit of care in setup if using a massive horn in a smaller space but once done they can be an amazing performer. But what comes fairly easy for me since I've done so many may be harder for others. I would suggest if your not liking how your horn system sounds in the room its in I wouldn't just blame it on being too large for the space and may be look at other reasons why. 

I do find it amusing that people buy a cheap loudspeaker with a horn tweeter and then pronounce that they hate horns forever. Since they didn't even have a horn speaker in the 1st place just a horn driver and an extremely small sample rate to pronounce all horns bad. So to horn or not to horn sure horn but go fully horn-loaded or your not hearing what such systems are capable of. And not to horn if you just to buy some cheap speaker with a semi-horn tweeter.