Battle of the affordables

Kef: would love to try them in my room, but have been warned they cannot produce the SPL in my GIGANTIC (volume 50 x50 x20 or so) room even so I am only concerned with 80 Hz and above (have great sub to handle the rest). 

I LOVED my B&W Nautilus 804, and for $2k used, GREAT buy. Hate 'sharp' highs, no issue with mine. 

Replaced with smaller 2 way, which is at mechanical limits in my very large (volume) room, even with sub crossed at 120 Hz. 

Current favorite (not fully evaluated) in the 'affordable' (under 2k) segment: Focal Chora 826. 

Sorry to suggest something not on your list but you have asked about some quite different speakers. I would look at and listen to Verity Audio Parsifal Encore. They are in the higher end the price points on your list but I think you can get a mid to late 2000s pair for 5 to 5.5 K. Solid built, room friendly, flight cases and pretty good WAF.

This is my first interaction with this forum, so please excuse any errors I make.  I may be wrong, but I did not see any information on what andy2 felt he was missing with his current speakers.  Can you articulate what you are looking for with a change?

thanks for indulging me…

Well if any of these sounds as good as my Pioneer S-1EX’s with the matching center,  I’ll consider it