Is the most efficient speaker the best speaker?

Unsound, I don't know. I can tell you this- one of them got "Best Sound at Show" at CES a few years ago, from Jonathan Valin of TAS. He followed up at the succeeding RMAF by saying that the new version of that same speaker (being played at that show) was the biggest improvement he had ever heard in any speaker!

I can add that I had an opinion similar to yours in the past- I thought all horns sucked. Boy was I wrong. Now I am of the opinion that horns, like all other speaker technologies, have unique pitfalls which can be avoided. If this is done they can be as musical or more musical (without coloration) as any of the best of competing speaker technologies.

Given your stance, I have to conclude that if you are being truthful about your position then you simply have yet to hear the speakers I'm talking about.

Well, what are they then?

This is an assanine thread.

Atmasphere,

I think in the minority paradigm that your products operate in, which you wholeheartedly believe in for good reasons, the answer to the ops question has a much better chance of being "yes" than in general. Still not a guaranteed yes though I suspect.

But the rules that apply in one case/paradigm mostly do not apply in the other. Another reason why the only possible answer to the ops question as stated, for whatever it may be worth, is "no".

In a real world scenario, the ops question is impossible to answer. In theory "all things being equal" makes his answer yes. Maybe a couple of you guru's can figure it out, but when you leave theory, I see this as an oxy moron and not answerable.