To horn or not to horn

My folks loved to dance, they would fire up the console, drop the tone arm and about 1 min later the Metregon would start sounding pretty good.

Horns, you can spend your life trying to get there.  Horn people, are horn people.

There are some neat looking ones through the years. Jensen, JBL, Klipsch, Altec. A LOT of handmade, one of a kind setups too, crazy looking stuff.

I had Imperial horns in my teens and early 20s, few speakers of the time were better. Of course I'd say that..LOL

I thought they were the Coolest Daddio. 

stereo53,768 posts04-21-2020 8:43amI heard the big JBL’s once, they went for almost 50K for the pair.  If I could afford them and had the room to support them, I would have bought them in a heartbeat.

Same here, I was in the Oakland Hills after the rebuild. The trees were still pretty small. Everest Dd6600 or 6700, filled the whole hillside with this wonderful highland music, bagpipes, and pan flutes. I thought I was in heaven, really heaven. Inside was 7th heaven, just sublime, all Krell 
and JBL. Oddball was the turntable, no idea who made it.

I got to work there for 2 months. Wonderful perk.., guy loved to show it off,, along with his pair of 100,000.00 dollar shotguns..... LOL

Regards