As you are in our neck of the woods we would welcome you to visit the Audio Doctor showrooms, in nearby Jersey City NJ, we have the widest selection of loudspeakers in that price range in the Tri state region.
We have Dali, Kef, Kef Reference, Elac Adante, ATC, Gradient, Paradigm Prestige, Paradigm Persona, Legacy Audio, and Rethem.
It will really come down to what you value and what your ear likes, we have some exceptional performers for the money, they range from the very high resolution sound of the hi tech Paradigm Personas 3F at $10k which are the only loudspeaker under $30k with a pure Beryilium midrange and a pure Beryillium tweeter.
The Paradigm Prestige are awesome and can challenge many $20k and above loudspeakers, the Legacy Focus and smaller Signature are golden examples of high performance, and very musical loudspeakers,. that are warm yet have good resolution with deep room filling bass, they are also easy to drive and efficient the Legacy speakers use a Heil AMT for the tweeter and midrange so they have excellent treble as well, priced at $7k to $10k
The new Elac Adantes are pretty amazing with the right gear for a $5k price point, the Adantes have a huge soundstage, very deep and tight bass, and a very clean detailed top end, and the Dali Rubicons are magical in balancing resolution with liquidity in a very compact floor stander at $6k a pair.
We even have a demo pair of $20k Dali Epicon 8 that we are selling for $10k due to having too many $25-35k sets of speakers on the floor.
If you like the wide band horn thing we picked up the excellent Rethem Bahaavas a $4,200.00 ful range that has some suprising sound as they do have a good top end and have excellent deep bass due to a built in isobarik subwoofer system, as they are a wide bander they are easy to drive at about 95db efficient.
The Kef R Series and the Pardigm Prestige series are both very good in the $4k to $5k price range.
Here is our showrooom tour of a few years ago, missing is the Legacy loudspeakers, ATC speakers, the Paradigm Persona, Rethem and Elac Adante lines, also missing is the T+A gear, the Innuous Servers,Mytek, and many of the newer products we have brought in over the last few years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NPIn3pEmI4
Please let us know if you would like to come for a private audition.
Dave and Troy
Audio Doctor NJ