Basic Budget Bookshelf speakers


I bought a Yamaha WXA-50 amplifier for a spare bedroom.  I've got some cheap Polk Audio speakers hooked up now which sound meh. I've got some older Klipsche reference bookshelf speakers in my garage system I could swap with them but I think I'd rather get an inexpensive pair of bookshelf's and ditch the Polks.
I'm looking at the KEF Q150's and 350's as well as some low end Martin Logans. Is there anything else I should be considering?
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The Rega R1 Loudspeaker  A New Budget Reference

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“ .... Immediate impressions are a clear and transparent portrayal with very high detail retrieval, fast and controlled transient response, and superb musical timing, both in articulating rhythms and tempi, and in placing instruments within the temporal flow and context of the performance. The RR125 is an outstanding mid/bass driver, sonically and musically right in line with the midrange performance of Rega’s amplifiers and phono cartridges. Get the midrange right and everything else will fall into place. Get it wrong, and all the king’s horses…

The Rega R1 becomes my new budget reference speaker. In addition of its ability to get the fundamentals of music right, it adds clarity and resolution, and an ability to lay out a vivid and coherent 3-dimensional stereo image. In small room applications, what more could you want? - Paul Szabady ....”