bookshelf for classical music under $2000

I agree with Bondmanp, the Reference 3A de Capos will give you bass for a smaller monitor nice midrange and highs

Disagree on the Totems. Would look at Ascend Acoustics, Opera, and Rega.

Rich

Vapor Audio Breeze speakers are stellar performers!!!

The Dynaudio Excite X12 or X16 should work well and are in your budget. This Stereophile review of the X12 indicates that even the X12 has room-filling projection, unusually good bass for such a small speaker (true usable bass to at least 40 Hz), and the review makes particular mention that it stays clear and articulate on large scale classical orchestral/choral pieces. The reviewer loved its midrange and listened to a lot of female vocalists as well.

The Focus 160 (their next line up on the quality scale) is reputed to be significantly better but I think it's more like $3K.

I definitely agree with staying away from the metal, and other hard dome tweeters. Stay with soft dome tweeters. Possibly, Spender, and Dynaudio, and others without the metal dome. I've seen this problem brought up a lot of times. A lot of metal dome tweeters have a resonance, that is over 20 kHz. They call this noise ultrasonic, but it sure can be irritating and fatiguing on any gear, to a lot of people. You could see on the Mirage M-3si, it states they must be using a filter to try and tame the metal dome down. Links to tests, and them metioning the metal tweeter problem.
http://www.stereophile.com/content/bw-dm603-s3-loudspeaker-measurements

http://www.stereophile.com/content/mirage-m-1si-loudspeaker-measurements

http://www.stereophile.com/content/mirage-m-3si-loudspeaker-measurements

http://www.stereophile.com/content/paradigm-reference-studio-60-v5-loudspeaker-measurements