Quote Originally Posted by Woochifer
Well, the K-horns are one of those speakers that you have to accept with warts and all! In my listenings with them, I could easily point out areas where they were far from neutral. But, there's no denying the simple musicality that their presentation offers up. In critical listenings, I could nitpick specific areas. But, once the music comes on, the listening's very enjoyable as a whole, whether the source is acoustic or amplified.

Wooch -- most all speakers you have to accept or not with warts and all. There are many facets of what a speaker produces and I can tell the issues the K-horn has but you take a good measuring speaker like the Pardigm S2 and I immediately can point to a huge failing in that loudspeaker that is so great to my ear that nothing else saves it -- and that is in dynamics (even the reviewers mention it continuously) and if you place a premium on dynamics then the S2 is a complete failure -- for rmany like myself it is far more important than frequency anomolies (which can be corrected with placement and listening position and treatments to some degree). This is not an attack because I would say the same for virtually all other speakers in direct competition with the S2. The thing with speakers like the K-Horn is they are enjoyable enough to make people not want to "critically listen" while speakers that were designed to be "audiophile" rather than "musicphile" allow people to talk more about soundstage, imaging, transparency, frequency, box noise etc while the K-horn just gets on with the fun factor and the person will play it and be done with it. The K-horn also needs extra special attention to set-up and front end equipment.

Having said all that I get why people would avoid speakers like the K-Horn.