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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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mrdecibel
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Larry, the way you say your words are eloquent and precise. It is also wonderful to hear someone else speak of "individualism", "preferences" and "compromise", with out the bashing of others. Thank you again for being a GREAT Audiogon community member. Always, MrD.
macrojack
1,303 posts
 
Pointless indeed, Drubin. It basically just comes down to asking which religion is best. World news reports are a good indicator of what sort of answers that discussion can yield.

Around here you can be crucified for disparaging tubes or liking horns or knocking Diana Krall.

In other places you might be stoned. (Not that kind of stoned)

So what's the answer? Stop talking about it altogether? That would make for a very ho hum fo rum. Wouldn't it?
isochronism
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knocking Diana Krall? I wouldn't mind....OOP
tbg
5,263 posts
 
I have always limited my self to talking about my experiences and making few generalizations beyond that. I think in these days of no dealers, this is as best as I can do. It is also the best reviewers can do.
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atmasphere
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Larry, I too like a nice flat frequency response. I'm not happy with it if I hear deviations or rolloffs at the extremes. So my system is a hybrid- horns on top and bass reflex woofers on the bottom.

One thing about perceived frequency response though, that ought to be considered:

The human ear perceives distortion as frequency response variation. This is why two amps can measure flat on the bench but tonally sound very different.
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