I always liked the Johannus. I played a 3 MANUEL model for a number of years in the 1980's at an Episcopal Chmurch and was very satisfied with it's sound and performance. Recent models I have listened to lately..still sound good and I believe you might be able to find an oldedr used one used one.. Go to: Daffur organs.com and they might be able to help your in your search.
My advice: visit www.allenorgan.com. You will find out plenty of interesting data about models, design, etc. To my taste, l Allen sound and quality is the best in today digital organs
I've played a number of different brands, although not Phoenix, and I've played around with Hauptwerk a couple of times. Honestly, for home use, I would take a good hard look at Hauptwerk. If you're from the US, you may have heard of Walker Technical from Pennsylvania. Second only to M&O in my opinion, but very pricey. I used to play an all Walker digital organ in Ajax, Canada. Do a YouTube search for lastcorpsestanding and some posts of that organ come up. That being said, my experience with HW is that it is coming very close to Walker.
HW is expandable, and quite flexible. And that style of system may become the new norm for digital organs in the near future. Check out the listening room at Milan Digital Audio, or do some YouTube searches.
If you look around the forums here, you'll also see other HW style systems that are talked about in depth.
Phoenix can do a HW style system using their own samples. I'm currently looking at that solution for my present church. Have fun looking.
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