Bonzo it is more than 30 years that I had my first experience with horns in private set up. I was 15 yrs old and my best friend's daddy was the owner of a system based on Klipshhorn loudspeakers, a Linn Sondek turntable with a SME tonearm and a Stanton 681 EEE cartridge and old Marantz Tubes Pre and Power amplifier and I enjoed it very much. But also at that time I attended every week to a concert or an opera at the Opera House of my town, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in Florence-Italy, where the main conductor at that time was Riccardo Muti, and I realized that the sound of that horn system was "different" from what I listened at the opera House! One year later I listened to a Hi-Fi system based on Dalhquist DQ10 loudspeakers, with the same turntable and the same tubes electronics and... I fell in love with those loudspeakers! Because I felt they were so natural in reproducing the orchestra and the human voices. And later I fell in love with Stax electrostatics loudspekers, with Acoustat , with Beveridge, with Snell, with Magnepan .... So you can see I am more an "electrostic guy" than a "horn guy", probably because at home I need to listen to a sound which has to be similar to what I'm used to listen to at Opera House (nowadays here in Florence we Have Zubin Mehta as main conductor...?).
Coming to recent years, few weeks ago I listened to the Acapella best horn system at a good friend's home. A wonderful and very expensive system, based esclusively on a turntable as source, latest SME model, with LAMM electronics. Everything so beautiful, so thrilling and compelling...but far from what I like! Probably it's because I am a classical music listener, and I know how a piano Steinway sounds, different from a Bosendorfer or from a Yamaha gran coda.... and in my "audiophile" life I'm always looking for a system able to reproduce with fidelty these nuances, without inventing new sounds or adjucting nice euphonic colours....