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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After using Klipsch Horn, Klipsch LaScala, then Avantgarde Trio for more than 15 years, (the Trio for some 9 years) I probably experienced to say that Tom Danley's Synergy horns are combining all of the dynamics, room filling sound and liveliness of the mentioned horn speakers plus add cohenrency like no otherspeaker I have ever tried. SInce 2007 I tried all the room friendly Danley Synergy horns at home and for PA as well, including SH100, SH100B, SH Mini, SH50, SH60, SM60F plus subs like Th28, Th Mini, TH 112 (for PA TH115, TH 118 and TH 212).

If you want something affordable try SM60F with TH28 sub or even without a sub. Will be very surprising. The SM60F is easily driven, high sensitivity and light enough to put it on an ordinary telescopic speaker stand. The bass and patter control results space and imaging which kind of rare in its price category. Sounds very musical on very low volume, but can be pushed above 120 dB without any strain.
The Yorkville (and Unity) is an old Danley design, the Synergy horn surpassed it every way. I know quite a few hifi enthusiasts using Danley for music and for movies as well at home, but I think none of them modified any of them. Could mean something. One of the most room friendly, room independent speaker I have ever used at home is the SM60F, because of its very tight and very smooth, uniform 60x60 dispersion, if one has a difficult room, worth to try it.