Any avantgarde acoustic owners?

fyi... Avant-garde Are Not Horn speakers!   They claim that they are horn speakers but in fact they are a copy of horn style/hybrid type of speakers.  

If they are true horn speakers;  it has to have compression drivers and horn load enclosure!  

@nickecb    My god, man! You could be on the threshhold of the audio grail of the highest order. If you can provide the not inconsiderable care and feeding (and space!) these drivers demand and can somehow come up with appropriate horns and a competent xover design (hopefully all analog) to open them up and let them breathe then you will have probably reached the apex of what is possible in lifelike audio. Goto is legend to me and I would drive a thousand miles to experience them.

Please tell me you don't live in Auckland.

I must agree with Acresverde on all points. I have been thrilled with with my Avantgarde Duo Omega's (Sub225) for over 12 years. I have tried a number of amps and settled on AtmaSphere S30 OTL. 

In all honesty the first few months of ownership was thrilling but I didn't really have a clue about setup. I tried all sorts of positions and crossover settings and got very good results. However, it wasn't until I followed Jim Smith's 'Get Better Sound' book and DVD that I was able to take a quantum leap forward in sound!

I have tried to time-align the mid and treble by moving the treble housing back. This made a surprising improvement. I also changed the footers for Herbies lab footers which made the bass more natural. I have read lots of comments about the bass being slow etc but I believe this is often due to the crossover cutoff and gain being set too high. 

Overall I have zero interest in changing these speakers as they give me the 'live' sound that I have always been searching for. They are dynamic and exciting without ever sounding fatiguing.

Did I mention that I really like them?

@acresverde Thanks for the encouragement. I'm still in the component buying phase of things. I'm going to start setting everything up in about a year in Virginia. If you're ever in that neck of the woods I'd be happy to have you over. I'm a bit of an amateur to all this so I'd be grateful just to have another pair of ears that can call me on what's not right.