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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
audiokinesis
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Just as disparaging general statements made about planars overlook some interesting exceptions, so too disparaging generalities about horns overlook interesting exceptions. Despite the title of the thread, I think it's well within the spirit of Renmeister's inquiry for horn advocates to reply with recommendations that are likely to have similar qualities to his present system but without the bass integration issue.

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mrdecibel
3,067 posts
 
Weseixas . I appreciate the response. It means I hit a nerve. Good. My comprehension is fine. Please read the original post again as to what is being said. I am a very bright 7th grader, but please let us know when you are on the show smarter than a 5th grader. I will place my bets. As far as the show, I never left the room other than a bathroom break, and the room was packed at all times. By listeners, not the police. Several other exhibitors stopped by and took a seat. I had people who had purchased cds at the show asking me to play a tune, which I did. It was a great show for us and much fun. But you keep bashing and insulting. A result of issues growing up I am sure. As a member of other forums, just a handful of you, and only on Audiogon, are many times out of line. But if you have a God complex, there are other forums about that subjet, not involving music listening. LOL
mrdecibel
3,067 posts
 
Weseixas, P.S. The BC/Uno combo bash is not me. Sorry. Once again you are showing weaknesses in your reading comprehension, and you are getting us all confused. I hope you are a happy person and enjoy life, because you tend to "attack" quite a lot on Audiogon. I was going to ask who you represented at the show, but I don't care, because the system probably lacked dynamics.
audiofeil
4,011 posts
 
>>04-03-11: Weseixas
Audiofeil:
Things could be worst than working at Walmart<<

I suppose it could be worse (not worst as you write).

BTW, are you part and parcel to the class action suit where minorities (in your case whining little weenie white guys with no balls) have not been promoted?

Although you are a living and shining example of the Peter Principle.
jax2
3,031 posts
 
Although you are a living and shining example of the Peter Principle.

I think there's even a bit of John Gabriel's theory at work right here on this illuminating thread as well.

I read a post a while back on another site that is worth reflecting on in all of this, who's worshiping the right speaker God, talk:

(big snip from larger post by DeadEars on Head-Fi.org)Language is really an imperfect tool for describing subjective reality. My audio system presents a set of stimuli (as does wine) which my brain interprets as a musical event. But of course it is simply an illusion, not really true, since I don't have live musicians playing in front of me. And who is to say that my illusion is better than your illusion? Hey it's happening in my head, right?
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