What do I expect in a horn speaker system?


I never hear about horn speaker, and it is almost impossible to get a choice to hear it when you live in small town in Canada. I may plan to get a Oris horn system, what kind of amp do I need? What is the price range of a horn system?
thx.
audiorichard

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Resonance and resonant peaks are often an issue with horns but they have advantages.

Since solid state electronics provided high amounts of clean power horns went out of fashion with consumers.

Recently they have had come back, possibly driven by a desire to use low power tubes.

Horns never went out of fashion in professional applications such as sound reinforcement - so just head to a local music shop.

Stacks of cheap but effective "bass bins" are used at concerts to allow concert goers to feel the bass.

Of course, sound reinforcment is rarely of audiophile quality and generally requires sound techs to actively manage the system to get the desired sound (often changing settings from track to track).