Budget American made speakers?

ultra is a fantastic store

Why bother if your happy with the jukebox ?
get a pair of Cerwin Vegas with the $6 bullet tweeter, stop reading speaker reviews and switch all the saved $$$ into suds....

but it I think you might find that many if not all the recommended speakers here are from people who both care about the music but yes also what it is played on because it allows them deeper more accurate and yes emotional access to their favorite songs, cycles, tone poems, thrash, shoegazer, whatever...

+1 for whatever Helomech said !!!!!

Helomech
you might be wound 2 tight
” the lost art of reading” influenced my comment about a lack of fluency in reading and therefore a comment about Recommendations of floorstander because we might not know what a bookshelf IS.....

also so I believe you were the 2nd poster to point out VLR at or below a thousand

peace

How can those of us not fluent in reading know anything about bookshelves ?

sorry I recommend a floor stander the magnepan

the VLR can most definitely be purchased used for under a grand

small Sony’s Faber Concertino are also amazingly musical and about $750 used, high whipped by WAF factor in leather / Walnut 

Vandersteen or Magnepan
or a used Jim Theil