Best Bookshelf/Monitor in $2000 range??

Check out the Reference 3a Dulcets if you get the chance; one potent, musical little speaker with a special, direct-to-the-music sound.

If you are handy, you can make one for less! Try a scan speak kit. You can google search for them. I am making a proac 2.5 for about $600. Kits are easier still. These places have kits. Vifa woofers are good - scan speak better still - richer and more echo to the sound.

http://www.madisound.com/vifastudio.html

http://www.northcreekmusic.com/

http://www.speakercity.com/scanspeak_kits.shtml

Try to audition the Hyperion HPS-906. I have the bigger brother and listen to the same genre of music as you do.