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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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shadorne
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Panel speakers suffer from having a diaphragm that is larger than the wavelengths being reproduced. This results in comb filtering and a highly variable with frequency and an uneven sound field with listener position. This makes them unsuitable for main monitors.
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dmailer
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I disagree with Shadorne's comment that the 604 is no longer competitive. It all depends on how it is implemented. If done properly in enclosures like the ones Shindo or Serious Stereo have designed these speakers can have a musicality that IMHO equals the best of the newer technology speakers. I have attended RMAF every year listening to many speakers of all types and have found few I would rather have and those would be speakers that are way more expensive. Of course everyone has their own preferences in the type sound they are looking for. I would not knock the technology unless you have heard it done right.
weseixas
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Most recording studio's are large and could acommodate any speaker they choose . I've seen some giant speakers in those rooms .-Tmsorosk

Agree ...
weseixas
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Panel speakers suffer from having a diaphragm that is larger than the wavelengths being reproduced. This results in comb filtering and a highly variable with frequency and an uneven sound field with listener position. This makes them unsuitable for main monitors..... Shadorne

Painting with a broad brush Shadorne, not all panel speakers use one panel and suffers from such.Also the mains are never used for mixing, hence most sound like S*** and are very poor for accuracy, they are there mostly for DB/playback and to assist deaf engineers...

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Seems we all have opinions/experiences that another seems to disagree with. I find Shadorne's comments to be far off the mark regarding Soundlab speakers at least. Oh well, I guess that is what makes us all individuals.

What is gold to one is tin foil to another based on preferences, hearing ability, past experiences and in some cases ignorance - not having actually experienced a said product.

Most, not all recording studios, would not use a speaker 7-8 feet tall by 3-3.5 feet wide that needs 5 feet or more dead space behind it.
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