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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Dan ed. Thank you for clearing that up. I guess all of the readers of this forum (but me) knew who "they" both are, without the "other" name being mentioned. What was I thinking. Again, sorry. By the way, your system looks great. In all my years involved in forums, as well as the industry, I have never run across individuals such as Unsound and Weseixas. Sure there have been proponents of this verses that, but never to the extent shown by these two. The fact that Jim Thiel understood and accepted my admiration for horns and, helped me improve upon them, shows a special kind of "class" that some individuals have, and, some not. Hopefully, they will learn to get along with others. It would be a welcome miracle ! However, as Atmasphere has mentioned, it keeps things interesting. But I do disagree with something Atmasphere said when welcoming opinions by "them". I do not trust their experiences, either them not knowing, or, not having enough listening exposure. Although they both claim to be experts and have listened to it all. I can understand why one does not like horns, but please......One day they will understand that one person likes chocolate and another likes vanilla(actually, Weseixas sought of said this just recently). So maybe there is hope. Have a good day ! Always MrD
Not all horn speakers are the same. Some are better than others. I have not heard all of them. If I had, I could offer one person's opinion, only one person's opinion. Some of you seem to feel that you are speaking on behalf of many people when you express your opinion. Likewise, can it even be called an opinion if it is not sufficiently informed?

Very few of you have ever heard horns like mine and I would bet that none of you have spent significant time with them. They are quite scarce. Yet outright blanket condemnation is proffered by members who have found some other kind of horn inadequate or offensive.

It's like basing your opinion about women on an overheard conversation between Rosie O'Donnell and Donald Trump. Yes, one of them is a woman - I'll leave it to you to figure out which is witch.

Weseixas and Unsound are a sad fact of life. Party crashers with bad intentions will always arrive just when the collective mood is at its most ebullient. As Dan-Ed has pointed out repeatedly, those two show up to drop a turd in the punchbowl every time the word "horn" appears in a thread title. They seem unable to help themselves. In their minds, we need their sobering influence. In my mind, they need to evaporate.