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
Added bout to upcoming Wrestlemania this weekend:

Unsound vs Dan_ed in a no holds barred "I Quit" match.....

Makes HHH versus Undertaker look like Sesame Street!
Dan_ed, use of horns are banned from this match!

Unsound may come armed with some prop tubes to use as illegal weapons but the ref will never see this.
Unsound,

I will gladly help you. I am sure there are some horns that suck or blow as you put it. But there are also great horns.

I have yet to hear a speaker better than the AG Trio. Like any speaker there are set up issues(placement/amplification etc), but once dealt with you will be done.

If you enjoy your Theils, you will die when you hear an AG Trio set up.

When someone takes the position "I don't like it so neither can you", what do you say? Take your toys and play some place else?
I have never heard Trios, but I tend to believe what Chadeffect says having moved from Apogees and high power Class D to Trios and some flea powered tube amp and having discussed the differences and similarities between the two quite extensively on his virtual system page.

He was running his Bel Canto ref1000 monoblocs with the Trios for a bit when he first changed from Apogees and reported good results, which surprised but impressed me. An amp that sounds good on both Apogees and high efficiency horns has to have something going for it.

Knowing his background and experiences, I seriously doubt Chad would be living even this long with the AGs if they had the stereotypical horn issues.

Hey but one person's panacea can easily be another's pox. ya just never know.....