tomlhuffman: The Tekton Design Moabs. $4.5K. Full-range, life-like sound, very large.
Also unbeatable in this price range. They do not need to be played loud, sound great at lower levels, and you will be spellbound the way they sound with a good recording. Any good recording. Some Ellington and Miles Davis I never even realized how great it was until I heard the way those instruments sound with the beautiful Moab midrange.
Someone said maggies, but you have the power problem. Well no power problem with Moabs, they are super easy to drive. And as for how they sound compared to Maggies.... https://youtu.be/7RxRTFx6Cd0?t=341 He's talking about the Double Impact but its an excellent description of the Tekton sound. The combination of coherence, delicacy, and power is addictive. Kemper Holt has another fine video specifically on the Moab https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vj_eRQ8TCAY
There's no retailer network to audition so I relied a lot on video reviews like these and they do fully live up to all the accolades. Also searched out a lot of on-line comments and reviews. You will have to wade through your share of ignorant attention-seekers and haters but if you can filter those out and focus on the people who have a clue there really is a lot of helpful info. Unless you are turned off by the way they look, and let's face it they are big, but if you can live with that its hard to see how you can do better without double the budget. And even then it would just wind up being another Tekton, Ulfberht or Encore.
My wife picked the color and thinks they look pretty good in charcoal. https://systems.audiogon.com/systems/8367