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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.
renmeister
weseixas
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Well think of it as punishment Dan ...:)
weseixas
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Once you have enjoyed the uncompressed sound of horns it's difficult to go to anything else-- 03-30-11: Tmsorosk

Tmsorak aren't you enjoying the compressed sound of your Revel's?

---- :)
dan_ed
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Well, you got your wish, dude. Another thread with "horn" in the title that was going ok. Then you couldn't resist taking a shot. And here we are. Once again. Ending on the same, old, tired theme of yours.
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dmailer
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I was looking for a speaker that had the uncompressed horn sound and great integrated bass. This combination is very hard to come by. I ended up with a speaker from Serious Stereo which utilizes an Altec 604 driver. This point source speaker has a horn coming out the throat of the 15" driver. The crossover is around 1500hz. This speaker has highs to around 20Khz and lows in the low 20hz range and seems seamless to me. They are 101db efficient with an 8ohm load. The cost on this may be a little more than you are looking at but was the answer for me. A few others make a 604 based speaker such as Shindo but of course theirs is much more expensive.
weseixas
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Well, you got your wish, dude. Another thread with "horn" in the title that was going ok. Then you couldn't resist taking a shot. And here we are. Once again. Ending on the same, old, tired theme of yours. -03-30-11: Dan_ed

You must be looking in the mirror and talking to your self again dude!

Check yourself ...... !!!!
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