What does one purchase after owning horns?

My gut take is that good horns that are not "shouty" are quite difficult and expensive to design and build. However there are some that do it right and these can be quite exceptional (but still not the ONLY way to excel).

Again the sad but true dilemma that the really good horns will be big and expensive and out of reach and or not practical for most.

Chadeffect, have you tried your Trios with Lamm SETs or some Audio Notes or something like that? I am just asking.
Do they sound different with higher powered amps, tube or ss?
Anyone heard Jadis speakers? I haven't.

Unsound, I was waiting for you to come on over with your bashing. I can handle it now..... looks like Weseixas has company. What a shame......

Hi Inna,

I have tried the Trio with various Audio Note amps. I did like the Audio note on the Trio, but it was a slightly old fashioned sound but very musical, especially with the 300b monos. I just not a 300b lover.

I have not tried the Lamm on them as I had some many years ago. Although I did try an amp with the same tube as the Lamm (6c33c).

The Trio sounds very different with SS or Tube and seems to be very revealing of tube type. i.e 300b, 45, 2A3, 6c33c, El34 and so on. For me the 45 had a dream combination of transparency and tone.

Do you mean the Jadis Eurythme speakers? They are beautiful to look at but I have not heard them.

I guess if discussing them there are also the Acapella speakers to. The tweeter is the finest I have heard. Unfortunately impossible to match with other drivers IMHO. I dream of a full range plasma speaker! Damn the laws of physics.

Inna, I worked with the Jadis importer during the mid 90s and was at the '96 Stereophile show at the NYC Waldorf as the "demo" guy for 3 days. They were very complicated to set up, as the outboard crossover took a while to adjust and tweek. The Jadis reps had so much equipment on hand, and cd was the only source. We were threatened so many times by neighboring exhibitors to "shut us down", because of the volume. This was not all of my fault, as the Eurythme designer went a little crazy as well. The isobaric bass and the rest of the horn was surprisingly coherent, something that surprised me. I did hear them in a properly set up home environment and found them wonderful, much better than at the show.