Horn Speaker Recommendations

PM me if you are interested in my pair of C.A.R. JBL Hartsfields~

Larry....yes the Avantgarde's I would say are on my finalist list.  I have heard the Uno Fino.  Just need to find the Uno XD and the Duo somewhere around the country.  As stated before, I just purchases Mola Mola Amps for another speaker.  If they do not work out I will go back to a tube amp.  If I do that then I will buy again from Raven Audio....great integrated tube amps with some of the bast tubes available and outstanding customer service.  

If I were going to go down the horn road again, and had the room, I would seriously  consider a pair of Gary Fischer's totally restored, upgraded and modernised Altec VOTT A7-500-8. Driven by either tube or quad balanced transistor McIntosh amplifiers, the sound quality to my ears is beyond phenomenal. I had a friend who has these exact speakers in his home system. Set up properly in a room with decent acoustics, I never saw any need for subwoofers to reinforce bottom end performance. A  pair of MC-75's with a C2500 preamp take care of  pre and power amplification duties. The front end sources are dominated by a VPI turntable and modified ATR-100 series open reel. As a strictly analog system, I cannot imagine anything that sounds better nor have I heard anything better. I don't have room to properly house a pair of A7's., so in my system I settled' for a pair of line array XRT-30. A poster above noted that proper line array systems image far better than point source and are IMO as close to a horn experience as you will get. Soundstage is large, wide and tall. Detail and dynamics are near as good but not QUITE as smooth as horns. When I say settle I don't mean it as a bad thing, these speakers sound as close as any non horn system  I've heard.

Other horn speakers I've experienced extensively are from JBL and Klipsch. Modified K-horns sounded decent enough, but not in the same league as the VOTT A7 500's. Here's the link to Gary Fischer's website if you are interested:

https://www.garyfischerspeakers.com/custom-speakers/

willgolf,

Since you like the looks of the Avantgarde speakers (I do too), I am wondering what you think of the AER Pnoe.  This is a backloaded horn speaker that is very much like the Charney, in terms of design.  I found out about this speaker when I started looking at AER drivers after hearing the Charney speaker with this particular driver.  I have not heard the Pnoe, but, it should be similar to the Charney, albeit many times the price.  I have not heard it myself, and I would not be that interested given how much more it costs than the Charney speakers I heard.  It is way out of your price range, but, I thought it is at least interesting and I wondered if you liked the looks.

https://aer-loudspeakers.com/aer-pnoe/

Larry - the whole AER website is pretty cool.  The PNOE on You Tube was really great sounding albeit You tube.  LOL.  The price is way above my league, but I did like the look.  It seems they are either $65 - $ 90k or under $20k.....nothing in between.  Have you actually compared Charney to Avantgarde?  

Can anyone comment on the Diesis horns who have them?