I had also listened to some modern horns. But somehow vintage horns have something special in its sound.Same modernised vintage style they based their sound on RCA theatre horns. I have never heard RCA horns and all OMA horns sound different so how exactly I cannot say, but that is what their objective was. I prefer the sound of OMA, general's pnoe, and the yamamura to old vintage, though on some music the western electric systems at Munich sound emotionally unbeatable. However they (The WE) can't play every LP, concerto, orchestra like the other three mentioned above can. All the three above, as well as a couple of bespokes, have some differences that are best heard. The OMA strength is that since the monarch is like a planar it disappears easily and plays easily, like a high sensitive, efficient planar. It sounds very compete.
The pnoe and Yamamura both which I heard with higher front ends (especially pnoe, best source and software) might be more preferred but in a different way. Luckily I don't have to decide and if anyone was buying I would suggest listening to all as all are different. Also, a guy with trios and 6 bass horns, Ypsilon phono and viva amps who listens a lot to opera preferred OMA's biggest speaker, which I did not like at all.
And anyone who gets one of them, should put Henk's grands at the other end of the room
But I have not had any horn speakers in my listening room.
I had used high efficiency full range driven by 300B Set amp.
I had been happily using Lansce 4.1 for 11 years which mate well with tube amp with high efficiency.
One affordable choice will be Line Magnetic LM3
LM-3 3-way speakers - LM302 - 22A - LM555W - BA-18
which is a replica of Western Electric and Jensen vintage drivers.
I am curious whether anyone here had listened to it.
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