Why not horns?

Diffraction effects. That's why. Now I haven't heard Avantdgarde Audio Classico speakers ($80,000) but that sounds promising. I assume you horn guys are Avantgarde owners...

I'm just a lowlife planar speaker fan.

Listener614 - You needn't assume anything about us. You can read the thread and find out the facts as to what kind of horns we use. It's all right there in black and yellow. Nothing could be planar.

Be careful, though, you might subject yourself to retraction effect.

For those of you who are ready to take a long step up, I just learned about this rig for sale. Check it out.

These horns will change the way you experience audio.

http://www.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/cls.pl?spkrfull&1295725784&/Acoustic-Horn/Bd-ah!-300-w-b-c

Those are very nice looking horns and seemingly not overly large either. Not cheap but not as expensive as some I have seen.

I wonder how they sound?

Too much for my budget currently though.

BTW I am dabbling with setting up a third mostly A/V system in my house. I have an old NAD 7020 receiver that I keep as a spare available to use and may consider the Klipsch horn route that I have been dabbling with here in that I have some room for decent but not overly large floorstanders that will be placed not too far from the rear wall in this case. I may start out by using my existing souped up OHM Ls here to start, but floorstanders would really fit in visually here better.

Mapman - Those horns, with their enormous dynamics and high efficiency, are the best you will find for home theater purposes. I would say that you, more than anyone else who has responded to this thread, are a great candidate for this product. Bill's AH 300 is one of the few options out there that can equal the Walsh mid range. Manger and QUAD are the others. None of them have the power of horns, however, and no other horn I've heard has the transparency of the AH 300.