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What does one purchase after owning horns?

I have owned Avantgarde Uno's and sold them because of the lack of bass to horn integration. I loved the dynamics, the midrange and highs. Now faced with a new speaker purchase, I demo speakers and they sound lifeless and contrived. The drama and beauty of live music and even the sound of percussion insturments like a piano are not at all convincing. I have an $8k budget for speakers give or take a thousand. My room is 13'X26' firing down the length. Any good ideas will be appreciated. My music prefrences are jazz/jazz vocalist.
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weseixas
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T-Bone the irony,

Anyway thanks for quoting me, gives your response some content .

Regards,
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atmasphere
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Weseixas, I think T-Bone has a good point- where is the science that says that horns are 'discombobulated'? Do you have a link that is peer-reviewed?
mrdecibel
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One boy's personal opinion.....I know many many musicians who own horn speakers, from simple Klipsch Heresys to, you name it. I can tell you that these individuals are not wrong in their musical assessments. What they all have in common is the day to day exposure to live music. So, if horns sound closest to live music ( dynamics,scale,speed,prat,etc. ), to these individuals ( even with all of their "opinionated" problems mentioned by you know who ), who is he to say otherwise. Again, his words are trivial and mean nothing, but yet he continues to speak. I say to these two : keep bringing it on.
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mapman
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Maybe horns aren't necessarily fatiguing but the horn zealot's appear to have mostly chased the non-believer's away from this thread about what to do after horns nontheless?

I'll speak treason and assert that there are many good cost and sound quality competitive options after good horns that also include excellent dynamics, including but not limited to other horns, if horns are what toot your YNW.
mrdecibel
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One of the best musical experiences of a non horn system was a pair of MBL 101s in a room that was, admittedly, too small for them(I spent many hours, on different days, listening, as they were owned by a close friend). The sound was incredible and very involving. I could easily live with these. Yes, I said it. Connected to them was a top end tube preamp and a powerful, top end ss amp. Because I value so many traits that horns possess, it is hard for me to ultimately feel satisfied with many a speaker. I can appreciate time coherence and spatial imaging of many of these high end systems, but if the sound cannot convey that "musician magic", if you will, it does not keep my interest. But, again I say it, to each his own, and let's all live happily ever after. P.S. : "Musician magic" is my wording, of the ability to follow, and feel, each musician in a recording.
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