In Italy there is not the culture of horn because no one distributor imported horn speaker,only some has old Altec A 7,Tannoy or hand made 3/4 way with Altec,Coral, Tad,cheap Ale and Goto and only one big shop DI Prinzio produced by himself but no one buy.
I listen many system,no bad but with many problems,is no simple to do.
I and some friend have culture because in 1990 i had ML 6B and 4 pair N 20 with Soundlab A1 and sub B1 and in that day i knew Yamamura that came to live in Italy and i was his first customer/ friend.
I was very happy of my system and after 3 weeks,Yamamura lived some months in my home to build a system,and Yamamura told me that my sound was terrible and start to teach me about tube SET,output trans in superpermalloy and mumetal,Horns,Driver,special SUT and did one system to me.
He was at my married and gift one mono amp to me and one to my wife.
Then after 3 years he left Italy for many problems and arrived in Italy Imai of Audiotekne and visit me 5/6 times and teach me some.
Later i knew always in Italy and did many dinner and listening with Sakuma,Uchida ( Tamura ) Endo ( Ale ),Shindo so understood many thing
But in Munich,for exemple i never liked a horn speaker,always some problems,and is very expensive do and no one i know is able to do,including network,so i bought Montagna speaker that are 98 db very fast and natural for high quality of his driver