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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
isochronism
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Some own "many speakers", listing among them six differing types... Others instead, own just "one" pair that they are happy with!! My JBL 4550's will be in my living room when I move. :)
mrdecibel
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P.S. T bone I had a great time during the '96 Stereophile show, showing off, for 3 wonderful days, the Eurythmie speakers, along with other Jadis gear. I think they are great !
weseixas
519 posts
 

T-Bone the irony,

Anyway thanks for quoting me, gives your response some content .

Regards,
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atmasphere
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Weseixas, I think T-Bone has a good point- where is the science that says that horns are 'discombobulated'? Do you have a link that is peer-reviewed?
mrdecibel
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One boy's personal opinion.....I know many many musicians who own horn speakers, from simple Klipsch Heresys to, you name it. I can tell you that these individuals are not wrong in their musical assessments. What they all have in common is the day to day exposure to live music. So, if horns sound closest to live music ( dynamics,scale,speed,prat,etc. ), to these individuals ( even with all of their "opinionated" problems mentioned by you know who ), who is he to say otherwise. Again, his words are trivial and mean nothing, but yet he continues to speak. I say to these two : keep bringing it on.
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