Why not horns?

You are correct sir !!

However, if you dismiss all horns because you believe they have similar qualities that make them all sound bad then you must believe all box speakers produce sound with similar qualities. Not the that they all sound the same, but a driver in a box is a driver in a box and there is only so much you can do to mitigate that.

HONK !!!

HONK !!!

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' I bet there aren't a handful of people here who have actually heard a front loaded bass horn of sufficient length and size like mine to properly produce a bass note.. Raise your hands.."

I doubt it also.

Hopefully that is not required in order to do it right else the future of horns does not look any brighter.

Weseixas, it sure looks to me like Duke addressed the issues that you had with my last post. I just have one thing to add, and this is true of digital vs analog, tubes vs transistors, horns vs planars, pretty much you name it in audio:

The better the technologies get the more they sound the same and that is simply because the better any technology gets, the more it sounds like real music.

I believe that most horn detractors (which often includes me) are leery of horns due to past bad experiences. However we have to accept that this world offers a large range of experiences, some of which are not available to everyone even if they have been in the field of endeavor for decades. I am now suggesting that while you have heard many horns sound terrible, you have not heard the best horns nor have you heard them with the best supporting equipment that can show them off. I'm going to take it a step further though, to illustrate my comment at the beginning of this paragraph. The same is true for you of planar speakers as well. I am sure that these two statements apply to everyone on this thread.

All we can be really sure of is that the better technologies get, the more they will sound like music and therefore more like each other, not less.

I would like to see those who query those that are in the know, to actually design and produce a loudspeaker and make a pair to be scrutinized. I own a pair of JohnK speakers and have heard Dukes loudspeakers on at least 2 separate occasions,they are very good sounding speakers. I do not know (or care) how they are designed or how many bottles of glue are used, I only know by my ears that they sound good.
Severely delayed? would that be like, er tomorrow?

"My mid-tweets are delayed so I am time aligned." - Herman

Please define time aligned.

My point, in this case, is that unless you changed out the crossovers in your speakers you may have some sort of "alignment" but the bass is still lagging the mid and the mid is still lagging the tweet.
A step response will reveal this.
And while what your's sound like in relation to the vast majority of box speakers may be true it may not necessarily be true in relation to a Thiel. A Thiel is time coherent, which makes it unique in this regard.