2 way, which are the best designs?


I've been looking for what is considered the epitome of the 2 (or 2.5) way design loudspeaker.
Be it active or passive!
I'd like to get some tips, please chime in
Preferably would be stand mount monitor, but floorstanding would be ok to.
(Today i use Barefoot Sound Micromain 27)
rird

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Fritz are not very good as they are just expensive drivers in cheap mdf boxes. Anybody could do that.
and how are you supposed to decide which is the best between ATC and Magico?
@mapman 

1) Best of show sound when I heave heard them and that includes soundstage and imaging
2) Unique crossover design that provides an easy load to drive.....even a few watts of tube power can do very well with excellent bass extension for the size and few if any other high quality speakers this size can do this particular trick
3) Only high quality third party parts used and yes also high quality cabinet.
4) These can deliver a lot of top notch sound especially for smaller monitor speakers off most any amp.
5) Top notch sound + top notch quality + relatively small package for all that = top notch value.
you can say that about every speaker. 
So you have auditioned them and came to this conclusion or is this just another kenjitism?  It's all crap because you say so....
i have auditioned plenty of speakers. Most of them are wooden boxes. I am sick of wooden boxes. What more do you expect out of a wooden speaker? How many more horrible wooden boxes do we need on the market before somebody realizes we have reached a limit with what you can achieve out of wooden boxes?
even a few watts of tube power can do very well with excellent bass extension for the size and few if any other high quality speakers this size can do this particular trick
The keyword here is trick. It is indeed a trick. There is no way to increase sensitivity unless you accept poor bass. You cant have high sensitivity, small size and window rattling bass down to 20hz its just not going to happen. 
Threads like this are pointless. Nobody knows what the best is so they just state their favorite speaker and in the end you end up with pretty much every speaker being listed.
@rird 

nobody here knows your MM27. They are very harsh speakers. 
Its true though. Anybody could have tapped the egg and stood it up. Same with building speakers. In fact Im not even suggesting you get out a saw and start sawing. You just get a cabinet maker to do it. Which is probably the same thing some speaker companies do. 
Even the cabinet size is done on a computer simulation. Same with crossovers. Its not rocket science. Its just laziness that prevents people. 

Kenjit, if you think MM 27 are harsh, i wonder if you've heard the latest gen 2 and not gen 1?
The barefoots are not designed for pleasing sound. They are designed to sound bad. Thats what the studio engineers want and thats what studio monitors deliver. 

Oh, i guess you hate top of the line Focal speakers?
i heard the diablo. Are they top line? It wasnt very good. Just like most high end speakers ive heard. Not surprising since theyre not custom tuned to your ears are they? 0.5db is a joke