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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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tmsorosk
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You guys crack me up , keep it up !
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mapman
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My gut take is that good horns that are not "shouty" are quite difficult and expensive to design and build. However there are some that do it right and these can be quite exceptional (but still not the ONLY way to excel).

Again the sad but true dilemma that the really good horns will be big and expensive and out of reach and or not practical for most.
inna
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Chadeffect, have you tried your Trios with Lamm SETs or some Audio Notes or something like that? I am just asking.
Do they sound different with higher powered amps, tube or ss?
Anyone heard Jadis speakers? I haven't.
mrdecibel
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Unsound, I was waiting for you to come on over with your bashing. I can handle it now..... looks like Weseixas has company. What a shame......
chadeffect
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Hi Inna,

I have tried the Trio with various Audio Note amps. I did like the Audio note on the Trio, but it was a slightly old fashioned sound but very musical, especially with the 300b monos. I just not a 300b lover.

I have not tried the Lamm on them as I had some many years ago. Although I did try an amp with the same tube as the Lamm (6c33c).

The Trio sounds very different with SS or Tube and seems to be very revealing of tube type. i.e 300b, 45, 2A3, 6c33c, El34 and so on. For me the 45 had a dream combination of transparency and tone.

Do you mean the Jadis Eurythme speakers? They are beautiful to look at but I have not heard them.

I guess if discussing them there are also the Acapella speakers to. The tweeter is the finest I have heard. Unfortunately impossible to match with other drivers IMHO. I dream of a full range plasma speaker! Damn the laws of physics.
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