Horn Speaker Recommendations

Larryi,
I love experiences around old and new ideas. I always want to know if old solutions are very good solutions or just...old habits :-)
My own experiences about bass are here :
https://www.latelierdumicrophone.fr/bloglast articles  are in english/french, older articles in french only.i will take some time, a day, to write about the particular two 15" bass horn we used on the first model of the Grande Castine horn speaker.

Rolling pictures of KornHent.bzh are from customers, most of them are old, coming from the first period i sold horns ( in early 2000's)
I love small Onken with Altec 414. Not at all the Onken W for several reasons (it is probably not the good thread to talk about that :-D )

for Larryi again !
i use actually BMS 4596 medium (no coaxial). Very natural, No distorsion even at low frequency and high level. I prefer it over Beyma 850ND and Radian 950 i used formerly.Moreover, it is easy to make a crossover with this BMS : there is a natural rolloff at 3000Hz.
The new Celestion Axi2050 is probably another good solution.
for the treeble i love the cheap B&CDE120 and the Faital pro HF108R
for the bass it is a custom made 12", by Cyrille Pinton. i was not able to find the 12" i need in actual products !

If i had a 40k budget would definitely be the JBL dd67000 . JBLs in the 3k range will compete with anything for that matter. I am a fan of horns but you have to have gear that allows adjustment along with practical experience with crossovers . Horns will effortlessly knock your socks off. But, with that comes very fine adjustments . You have to do alot of listening and tweeking to get them right, but once you do there is nothing like it. 

kornhent,

Thank you for the additional information and links to more pictures.  I am a fan of your kind of horn-based systems.  My own system utilizes a small Onken with twin 12" drivers (alnico magnets, pleated paper surround).  The 12" drivers were new drivers when I got the system in 2003.  My midrange horn is a very old Western Electric 713b and 12025 straight, sectoral horn.  I tend to like the older compression compression drivers, like those of IPC, Western Electric, YL and new drivers that are reproductions of old drivers (G.I.P.).  

I have not heard the Volti Speakers, but I added the Volti upgrade (horns, drivers, crossover) to my original K-horns.
Paid more for the kit than the K-horns(used) & was worth every penny.
The improvement was night & day.