Budget tower speakers that rock!

Vintage VMPS speakers if you want to Rock and Roll. Some of the best rockers ever made, AND they play Chopin just fine.. They are a big heavy speaker. TII se, TIII se, RM30s, RM40s (if you can find them) Elixirs (Never gonna find them), RM50s, V60s. I’ve used them over 35 years now.. They use to call him Mr. Bass at NASA, they use to have some of his subs, there for testing purposes.

I have QSO 808s (58lb each monitor, 3 way) 1-300.00
TII se (110lb, full range floor stander, round drivers, single ribbon UHF driver, 4 way) I do a mid range upgrade to a soft dome, quite nice. 4-700.00
RM30s (120lb ea. full range narrow baffle planar base & WCF bass/sub drivers, 3 way) 1-2,000.00
RMx Elixirs (390lb ea. full range, hybrid line source, planar & WCF bass/sub drivers, 4 way) Narrow baffle HDF not MDF.. Impressive 4-7,000.00

Infinity if you know what your looking for.. Some great OLDER speakers, new not so much.. 100-1500.00

A real goodie if you can find a pair is VMPS RM40, with TRT, silver wire. WCF, FST, sound coat and a real cool finish.. There were some great ones..(finishes) One great speaker at close to 250 lb each. 13-2200.00 BIG bang for the buck...

Regards

Dude. Zu. 

NHT?

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Based on your stated preferences, a vintage pair of Cerwin Vegas should work just fine.

Best you will get at below a grand are PSB , one of the best speakermakers in audio.
Made in Canada means a lot in quality and sound .

Axeman reminded me of another one I owned and liked... the Jamo Concert 11. These are on a higher level than 99% of everything else Jamo has ever made...

Hi Sam! A few speakers that I owned that fit the sound profile you are looking for are Klipsch KLF 20 or 30, Vandersteen 2ce, Kef XQ5.  The Vandersteens were my favorite though!

Look at some of the Tekton offerings Lore Reference etc
Jamo;Fluance to add a couple of choices.