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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
audiofeil
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>>04-03-11: Weseixas
Audiofeil:
Things could be worst than working at Walmart<<

I suppose it could be worse (not worst as you write).

BTW, are you part and parcel to the class action suit where minorities (in your case whining little weenie white guys with no balls) have not been promoted?

Although you are a living and shining example of the Peter Principle.
jax2
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Although you are a living and shining example of the Peter Principle.

I think there's even a bit of John Gabriel's theory at work right here on this illuminating thread as well.

I read a post a while back on another site that is worth reflecting on in all of this, who's worshiping the right speaker God, talk:

(big snip from larger post by DeadEars on Head-Fi.org)Language is really an imperfect tool for describing subjective reality. My audio system presents a set of stimuli (as does wine) which my brain interprets as a musical event. But of course it is simply an illusion, not really true, since I don't have live musicians playing in front of me. And who is to say that my illusion is better than your illusion? Hey it's happening in my head, right?
mrdecibel
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Thank you Audiopheil and Jax2. Support never hurts !
mrdecibel
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Audiokinesis. Excellent observation and well to the point. Thank you !
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shadorne
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Is it just me? I read the title of this thread, "What does one purchase after owning horns?", and thought the owner was looking for alternatives to horns but a speaker that retained many of the great things the OP likes about horns?

(and English is my first language...)

However somehow we ended up with a toddlers fight in a sandbox? I wonder how any of this is intended to help the OP or is it simply an outlet for those with anger management issues and baggage/agendas from previous threads (the last sandbox fight)?
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