There are a couple of floorstanding monitors that we can recommend that should provide you with the sound quality to meet your listening requirements.
TIP: Bi-wiring your speakers to your amp will improve the presence.
The Tyler Acoustics Addisson A28 is a 5-driver, 3-way design that is designed to give you power, presence, and dynamics, without being fatiguing over time. In standard finish (and a nice discount), the price should stay within your price budget. - http://www.tyleracoustics.com/addissonA28picture.html -
The Audes 037 is another floorstanding system that offers a presence that is very difficult to find in the $1,500 price range. It is a 4-driver, 3-way system design. The bass won't go down quite as low as your D-9s, but will produce a more balanced overall presentation. - http://www.audes.com/037.shtml -
- http://www.stereotimes.com/Audes_Loudspeaker_Model_037.htm -
Both systems are easy for virtually any amplifier to drive with very good efficiency, and with their mutiple driver configurations, will give you a good, solid, "up-front" presentation that you missed in the Thiels, again, without the long-term fatiguing quality of the C-V's.
Happy shopping!
TIP: Bi-wiring your speakers to your amp will improve the presence.
The Tyler Acoustics Addisson A28 is a 5-driver, 3-way design that is designed to give you power, presence, and dynamics, without being fatiguing over time. In standard finish (and a nice discount), the price should stay within your price budget. - http://www.tyleracoustics.com/addissonA28picture.html -
The Audes 037 is another floorstanding system that offers a presence that is very difficult to find in the $1,500 price range. It is a 4-driver, 3-way system design. The bass won't go down quite as low as your D-9s, but will produce a more balanced overall presentation. - http://www.audes.com/037.shtml -
- http://www.stereotimes.com/Audes_Loudspeaker_Model_037.htm -
Both systems are easy for virtually any amplifier to drive with very good efficiency, and with their mutiple driver configurations, will give you a good, solid, "up-front" presentation that you missed in the Thiels, again, without the long-term fatiguing quality of the C-V's.
Happy shopping!