The madness of this hobby seemingly always ends up with large horns of some sort. The current tech that revolves around waveguides tends to show how a little goes a long way, including some of the tiniest waveguides that a lot of modern tweeters are built into.
I have gotten into some quirky and eccentric designs myself, and although far from correct, still intriguing and fun to listen to somehow, at least until that novelty wears off. Ultimately, though, causing me to instead to do a complete 180 into less and uncomplicated being being actually more. Once I hear a type of speaker that sounds like it is trying too hard or depending on too many 'right' things, I can't unhear it. Same happened to me while experimenting with dipole or wideband types.
It makes me laugh at myself now though, getting my audio socks knocked off by smaller, 3-way monitors, tiny and inexpensive, class D amps. . . and subwoofers. The only downside, if there is one, being, there is nothing left to do other than just listen to the music. Turns out that this hobby didn't really need so many of my big ideas after all.
