How much of High End Audio is Horn Speakers?

Nice write-up @cohicks4 , but I’m a little confused:

Even though the midrange and tweeters look like horns they are actually compression drivers with horns for dispersion

Most horn mids and tweets I know of ARE compression drivers. I think you may be thinking of horn loaded bass cabinets as a "true" horn speaker, but in my experience, both are considered true horn speakers. Just different drivers attached.

I wouldn’t say "even though ... look like horns..." because they really are horn speakers. If they lacked the compression driver they might be called "wave guides" instead, but potato potatoe.

Using compression drivers attached to a horn is 100% pro horn speaker construction.  Nothing illegitimate about it.

Copy that Erik, guess I was confused, but it was JBLs fault😂, they compared true horns with their compression versions in the write-up. Either way they are excellent sounding, and thanks for the clarity!

This puts it better.  As you can see from the article, the raison d'etre for compression drivers IS horn speakers:

Great info, thanks…maybe I should spend more time reading and less listening?

cohicks4,

I had the Array1400's too. They are excellent speakers, and the looks are a knockout. Nothing else looks like them.