I am lucky to live in a city with several brick and mortar hifi stores so am able to audition speakers in person. When I was shopping for new speakers a few years ago, I found that the disconnect between what many reviewers liked and what I thought sounded musical was considerable. I had a list of what I wanted to hear in hand up to, a certain price level ($!0,000)
I found many speakers played well above their price level and many below. I suggest you keep an open mind and audition all you can .
Feel free to disagree, but you should be able to get good bass with a budget of $25,000 to spend on your primary speakers unless you have a huge room and/or you are looking for big bass effects for a home theatre. I have owned many speakers with multiple 5-7 inch drivers in a tower configuration as has been so popular over the last several decades. They do a good job of getting bass out of a small footprint, they integrate well into a room and usually have good WAF but they won’t give you the same experience as speakers with a bigger diameter woofers