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How much of High End Audio is Horn Speakers?

An audio friend of mine had been discussing my future speaker purchase. We discussed, Harbeth, Devore, Spendor, Audio Note and other more traditional speaker brands. A week or two later he called an asked me what speakers I had purchased. When I told him Klipsch, there was a little silence on the other end of the line. Our call probably ended a little sooner then usual. I could tell he was disappointed in my purchase. Is it the Klipsch name that illicits this type of response or is it Horn speakers in general? After thinking about some of the other Audiophiles in town, a good deal of them are on the low power high efficiency speaker route and more than a few I know are using Horns. Does anyone know how the high end market share is divided? Is there a stigma associated with certain lower cost Horn speakers? Or is this just Klipsch? I now own a pair of Klipsch Cornwalls and am enjoying the journey associated with tweaking the sound to my taste. Is there an unwritten rule that friends don’t let friends buy Klipsch?

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Klipsch have good potential ,for the inner Xover is the weak link, even their latest model  the Xover parts are very cheap and not even a average level of 6-7 

15  being the best theXover being the ❤️ or 🧠  of the speaker  ,this is  not a isolated incident even in $15 k speakers  None have top parts 

go to Humble homemade Hifi Capacitor test , you will see what I mean

 Duelund are the most expensive and at top level , And byw all Copper foils are the best poly caps are sprayed metal on plastic and paper 

Jupiter, Milflex ,VH audio Copperfoil are also very good each sounds a bit different ,

resistors  Mundorfs new Copperfoil resistors are the most detailed , path audio is a close second a bit warmer ,  many use cheap Solen caps, or from Taiwan ,even in Harbeth ,revel and many others ,even Wilson ,they bough5 Rel caps kthey are better then average but not near the top.I told the engineers at Marten Logan on their flagship $80 k speaker mid grade Mundorf Evo capacitors Really ,a $20 cap ,at least put in Mundorfs best silver gold oil which are very good , ifyou can’t see many companies cheat ,also gold brass connectors ,when copper gold is 3 x less resistive ,more conductive , I am just making a point after modding Xovers for 20 years now.

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