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
Horns can work well in smaller rooms too, if you take care to carefully match the amp and speakers. I have used Belles in a room 10 x 12.5, and also Altec Lansing Model 14s in the same room. Works great, and may require less in the way of room treatments then conventional speakers.
Renmeister, I just noticed this thread. I have been at audio for 40 plus years. I repeatedly tried horns beginning with Klipsch corner horns, then electrostats, then dynamic drivers, then electrostats, then horns, including the Duos and Trios, then dynamic drivers, then partial horns the Acapella LaCompanellas, and now back to dynamic drivers. By my count I have owned 24 different speakers.

You will never hear horn dynamics or speed out of anything else, especially if they use compression drivers. I once almost went to a five way GoTo compression driver system. But you will always have integration problems with horns. Instruments will change positions depending on where they are in frequency.

I became convinced that there was no best speaker; that all were compromises somewhere; that only a point source driver, capable of really quick peaks across the frequency range from 20 Hz to probably 100k Hz, and with efficiency of over 100 would really suffice. Fat chance of that ever being possible.

Perhaps I have given up, but I am back to dynamic drivers in the Tidal speakers. I really don't think there is a better compromise, but if you find one, please tell us about it.