Battle of the affordables

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

I have recently spent some time with a pair of Rogers LS6 two way bookshelf's on stands. I am shocked with their presentation. Sold them after a week, but can't stop thinking about them. Visited my friend, who bought them from me. We put on the remixed PF "Animals", and verified my previous opinion. Only my Maggie 20.7 and Vandersteen 2Ci's could best them... ??? 

It seems as though the crossover's are the problem with all speakers. 2 way is typically the most transparent system. I had a pair of Brentworth 1 way transmission line's with a whizzer cone. It's been 12 years and I still remember them and I know it seems crazy but they shook me loose from an electrostatic fixation that gripped me for almost 10 years.

I'm not missing some other well respected types, not even thinking about the high cost of some of them. Just talking about that, "ah ha" moment that comes out of nowhere every other couple of years. 

I think the best part of this hobby is when you get humbled by a simple approach and realize that it's not about expensive stuff. Synergy, combination, luck!