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I chose the EdgarHorns for fairly simple reasons.  I have listened to them and I loved the way they sound.  They are not the perfect loudspeaker, but they make much truer music than what I have now.  Also, the price I paid is less than even the cost of the drivers I had in mind for my DIY speaker project.  If I had unlimited funds I would be building horns into the structure of my house, but I am not a rich man; this was a deal I couldn't pass up. 

Bruce Edgar is a very nice guy and sells his speakers for a very reasonable price given the sound quality you get out of them.  He sells the speakers as finished versions, as partly unfinished versions, and he also sells the parts he uses for his speakers for DIY projects.

They are nice speakers for a number of reasons.  They are very efficient and have a moderately flat frequency response.  They are vertically aligned and they use spherical horns for the tweeter and midrange.  The bass and subwoofer use non-spherical folded horns, due to space considerations -- a practical compromise.

The EdgarHorns are made of wood.  I have listened to a number of horns made of metal, plastic, and wood.  I prefer the sound of the wooden horn, although any material with appropriate damping and resonance characteristics ought to be good.  It so happens wood is a very good material in this regard, to my ear.  Synthetic materials sound "plastic" to me; they tend to ring and resonate if too thin, and suck the life out of the music when overdamped.

The drivers used are optimized for minimal crossovers and maximal efficiency.  The are pretty decent, for example the midrange uses a JBL 2441 Alnico compression driver.  Not the world's best drivers, but if you go to another driver you must change the crossover and the speaker to accomodate the alteration.  Driver choices seem to have been made to get a simple, good sounding, reasonably priced product.

Are the Titans the best speakers ever? No, of course not!  But they are good.  I have heard many speakers: Avantgarde, Magnepan, SoundLab, Quad, Dali, Vandersteen, Meridian, Martin-Logan, B&W, Tannoy, Wilson, Thiel, Von Shweikert, etc. etc. etc.  Some of these are very good, but none was so much better than my home-made two way system that I ever wanted to shell out the bucks.  Until I heard the EdgarHorns.  To me it was just more musical -- but I tend to ignore many colorations and look for the sense of "being there just listening to a performance" instead of listening to what a recording sounds like. 

To me they just sound right.  But everyone has different tastes because we all focus on some different aspect of sound.  Still for the price, EdgarHorns are hard to beat.  Especially his Slimline speakers which sell now for just over $2000. IMHO.

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