Mr Decibel. The thing that I notice about horns is, one can just about measure how far the microphone is from the recorded object. Most music is "mixed" into a composit recording. Horns and even a good direct radiator system can delineate each track in that summed recording, different microphones used for each track. Somebody made the statement while listening to a horn system, "it sounds like I am in the throat of the singer". Probably a close miked vocal track?
