What does one purchase after owning horns?

"the Trio is like the best planar on steroids"

Funny, but I have heard some planar users that switched to OHM Walsh speakers (like myself) use that same analogy.

Having heard all kinds of speakers over the years, including some really good modern horns, I am convinced that a pair of big, expensive high efficiency horns like AG or similar are the only ones that could tempt me to change, if I could afford them and had the right room.

I would never be tempted to go with anything more than a small and easily maintained tube amp and would not want to rule out SS.

I learned a few more things about Avantgarde here that will keep them on my list of potentially coveted audio gear down the road I would say!

Ime THD does not correlate well with subjective preference. Imo THD is not the right yardstick to be measuring with; a horn or amp or whatever can have excellent THD numbers and still sound pretty bad, or have bad THD numbers and still sound excellent. I'm not horn-bashing here; I'm THD-bashing.

Better yardsticks have been proposed, but the industry has ignored them.

Rest in pieces.

Recently saw one of my first projects, from almost 30 years ago, sitting busted and scavenged in the back of a theatre. Almost nothing left except the outer boxes and framework. 8' tall, 4' wide and 4' deep of seashell-like curved and laminated "folded" horns. Built on site. Was told, "Shame that their hidden". Maybe I should've made them to fit through the door. Each with dual 15's and dual mids. Thought I was stealing at 1500 bucks each. Forgive my moment of nostalgia.

I'm not so sure there is anywhere to go after owning horns but I've often thought that buying a small church or movie theater might be a good idea WHILE owning them.

I can tell that my horns would like more space.

Did you ever see pictures of gurus on top of mountains with folded legs, fingers meshed, half-closed eyelids and an expression of utter serenity? The way it is usually portrayed is that he is being sought out by the young person who climbs the mountain to ask "oh guru, oh guru, I have climbed this mountain to come to ask you what is the secret to life!"

The answer is obviously, as any self-respecting mountaintop guru will tell you, "Horns".

If the young person had asked for the "Ultimate Answer to Life and Everything", he would have gotten a different number, but he didn't so he got the lesser answer - "horns". But in my book, if you have gotten to horns you can be considered to have led a pretty successful life. Only years (7.5 million of them?) of mountain-top guruing get you to the next level.