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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Ime THD does not correlate well with subjective preference. Imo THD is not the right yardstick to be measuring with; a horn or amp or whatever can have excellent THD numbers and still sound pretty bad, or have bad THD numbers and still sound excellent. I'm not horn-bashing here; I'm THD-bashing.

Better yardsticks have been proposed, but the industry has ignored them.
Rest in pieces.

Recently saw one of my first projects, from almost 30 years ago, sitting busted and scavenged in the back of a theatre. Almost nothing left except the outer boxes and framework. 8' tall, 4' wide and 4' deep of seashell-like curved and laminated "folded" horns. Built on site. Was told, "Shame that their hidden". Maybe I should've made them to fit through the door. Each with dual 15's and dual mids. Thought I was stealing at 1500 bucks each. Forgive my moment of nostalgia.
I'm not so sure there is anywhere to go after owning horns but I've often thought that buying a small church or movie theater might be a good idea WHILE owning them.

I can tell that my horns would like more space.
Did you ever see pictures of gurus on top of mountains with folded legs, fingers meshed, half-closed eyelids and an expression of utter serenity? The way it is usually portrayed is that he is being sought out by the young person who climbs the mountain to ask "oh guru, oh guru, I have climbed this mountain to come to ask you what is the secret to life!"

The answer is obviously, as any self-respecting mountaintop guru will tell you, "Horns".

If the young person had asked for the "Ultimate Answer to Life and Everything", he would have gotten a different number, but he didn't so he got the lesser answer - "horns". But in my book, if you have gotten to horns you can be considered to have led a pretty successful life. Only years (7.5 million of them?) of mountain-top guruing get you to the next level.
So I guess we settled this. Money and space permitting, nothing can really compete with the best horns.