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Horn speakers , high efficiency but not “shouty”

I am interested in a high efficiency horn with SET AMPS, in a 12 ft by 18 ft room. 9 ft ceiling .
I have narrowed my choices down to Charney audio Excalibur http://charneyaudio.com/the-companion-excalibur.html
and rethm maarga v2
https://www.google.com/amp/s/audiobacon.net/2019/04/18/rethm-maarga-v2-loudspeakers-listening-sessio...
would appreciate input from any one who has heard the above speakers or someone who has a similar system . 
listening choices are vocal music , no classical music.
Very rarely might want my system to play loud party music .(extremely rare ) does not have to play it like solid state system. Thanks in advance 


newtoncr

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bassdude
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03-12-2021 8:08pmI have owned Wilson and Sonus Faber and I will easily vote for a horn over either of these speakers.  I went on a year long search for Horn speakers and considered many including Charney, Avantgarde, hORN Univesum, Deja Vu, Klipsch, JBL, Aer, BD Design, PureAudioProject Trio's and Odeon to name a few.  Then I found this small boutique company called Viking Acoustic who does amps and speakers.  I ended up buying Viking Acoustic Grande Voix's and I am super happy.  They have a line of speakers in all price ranges.  
I agree with willgolf - the Viking Acoustic speakers (formerly dc10Audio in Santa Fe) are exceptional, with all of the benefits of horn speakers and none of the weaknesses.  They're very efficient, are easily driven with tube amps (SET amps and others).  Magical sound - among the best. 

I have the Berlin R MKII stand mount monitors and they sound superb - just as in these videos! 

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=viking+acoustics+berlin+r
   
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