Why not horns?

Hi Unsound,

That was an emulation attempt that occurred a bit later during the 1980's, with a different Carver amplifier model, that was written up in Stereophile and therefore drew more widespread awareness. Remarkably (or perhaps not), Stereophile's writeup of Carver's effort to emulate the CJ tube amp made no mention and reflected no awareness of his earlier effort to emulate the solid state ML-2 with some of his other models.

Best regards,
-- Al

Ah, thanks for the follow Al.

OK, back to the horn thing. I just got a pair of Altec 19s a few weeks ago and they are sounding great. Less efficient than my Cornwalls and less forward as well, but they have fantastic impact. I feel like I am in that Maxell ad every time I turn them on (I know, our younger members are asking, "What's a Maxell?", time moves on.).

people who may have spent upwards of $10k per pair for their speakers,, and do not have some kind of horn set-up, probably haven't really heard a good set of horn-based speakers. 

Horns are the best jump on a pair asap.