Lately I have been thinking a little about choices I can make for my 'big' system. I am very satisfied with the sound of what I have now: E145 (closed cabinet) +2123+2420/2344/radian-alu-dia's all active on 6 30W class A amps on a modified M553 crossover, silver cabling, very nice sound. Plays everything from Daft Punk to The Carpenters, jazz and classical, sounds very open and intense.
But I have seen an Array 1400 system for sale for 4.500 euro. And I have seen a K2 S9800 system for sale for 10.000 euro (euro / dollar is about 1/1).
A 3rd option could be to get some H9800 horn copies from Guido and equip them with Radian + True-extent beryllium dia's, all for the cost of about 3.500 euro. I really like the 2123, but with these instead of my 2344/2420 I could get my crossover point a little lower to say 1000Hz and probably get nicer highs.
But my current system is so tuned to my taste that all the different options that I have investigated over the past years have not 'made the cut' and instead my system keeps being improved bit by bit. Yet it is stil very ugly...
I am afraid the Array 1400 system won't make the cut due to it being passively filtered and bass reflex and not being a 'high sensitivity' design. The K2 S9800 looks nicer with the better bass, the 9V biased crossover and the Be drivers, and is uniformly regarded as a top class speaker. The BLS horns + radian + true-extent could be magical, on par with the 476Be driver/horn from the Everest. But the system will still be ugly and I still need 6 amps for the active system.
What would you do?