$1000-$2000 Floor-standing speakers for larger room w/NAD 326bee


I’m looking for a set of floor-standing speakers for our main listening room. They will be 2 channel music only. They need to be "cat safe" (no fabric on front, or removable grills), able to fill a larger room (20x15 with vaulted ceiling) with decent volume (typical max listening level is 85-90db but a lot of listening is at low volume as well) and efficient enough for a NAD326BEE. Budget is ~$1000-$2000 for the pair. My old speakers in the room were open baffle design (Hawthorne Audio Duets) and I did like the relatively open sound stage they provided. I may move them to a different room or just sell them (they’re too wide for our current configuration in the room and they aren’t too high on the "cat safe" scale). I have a couple of Polk TSi400’s in the room now as "placeholders" until I decide on a permanent pair. Minimum distance between speakers is about 8-10 feet and listening position is about 10 feet from the speakers. The speakers will need to be within about of the wall behind them. The floor is carpeted.

Music is a mix of Jazz, Classic Rock and Classical and sources are turntable and streaming from a Roon server. I live in the Atlanta metro area and

I’ve been out of the speaker hunting game for a while so any suggestions would be very much appreciated!
ruleof72

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Ha!
good for you
we got our model 7 from Alan at HiFi Buys, love them
and yes they are badA
we did take over his high end room for 6 hours one day audition power amps while our Labrador slept at our fett so in short my guess is Alan is so customer focused you could ( almost ) move in !!!!
what I love most about your Post is the FUN you had

funny story ( now )

we took a pair of MMG in trade which was a small win against our cross town arch rival and because our backwalls were pretty highly damped they never did sparkle, so on a whim i bought them from store owner
came home to find GF cat hanging stuck to panels
( btw they sounded freaking fantastic in our 10’ ceiling brick townhouse)
said to GF declaw the cat
she moved out the next week...
i talk to Richard Vandersteen about every two weeks
i will ask about the cats....
i can already hear what he will have to say about cat armor on the model 2....
i expect his Dutch frugality will win the day...

go see Alan at HiFi Buys in Buckhead
i got a pile of stuff from him and he carries most of the brands mentioned above as well as NAD
...the Vandy are not cat safe alas... few speakers are really
i sold a ton of ADS to cat owners back in the day....metal grills !,,,,