What does one purchase after owning horns?

Mapman, obviously any duplex or coaxial horn speaker is the exception to what you say as are single driver horn speakers.

The Feastrex 5" field coil driver has great promise, but even there I don't expect that they can ever get great bass out of it.

Mapman, I completely agree with your assessments, although, I still do not think those "non dynamic" live performances are easily duplicated by a system. But it can be close. Whenever I listen, tweak and/or evaluate a system, I bring along two Sheffield Labs recordings. The Drum and Track record, and Prime Cuts. I have used these for years. They show me immediately all strengths and weaknesses in a system. I use these as a reference because of my familiarity with them and, my liking of them. Once I approach my preferred listening levels, it is quite amazing what findings become apparent.

Since the discussion revolves around dynamics.

I'll just mention that the Sheffield Labs Drum Track XRCD is a good way to compare speakers for dynamics. Horns or no horns it takes considerable engineering/technology to play these drum tracks cleanly (no audible distortion) with brief but sustained levels over 110 db SPL at the listener, as measured with a Radio Shack meter on C weighted.

Shadorne Absolutely !

A musician friend of mine came over to my place the other week, he had previous not heard my horns, I played some cd's, and his comment was how 'clear' they sounded and he cheekily asked If he could he plug axe into them!
Does 'clear' mean, open, forward, colored, bright?
or all of the above?I care not as they float my boat, or should that be ship? lol.