Candidates for best speakers in the $2000-5000 market

It would help to know more about your specific circumstances, such as, room dimensions and speaker location requirements (near the corners, how far from wall, etc.), how loud you like to play your music, type of music, kind of speaker (floorstanding, stand-mounted, panel), other gear in your system, what other speakers you have heard and liked or disliked, your priorities in speaker performance (bass freak, liveliness, imaging, smoothness, etc.) and pet peeves with stuff that disappoints.

I have my doubts that this kind of survey will be able to identify what is most popular, and even if it could, common taste may not align with yours.  

However good are Magneplanar speakers, the are probably be out of the running.  For smaller stand-mounted speakers and space saving floorstanders, I would look at ProAc speakers, Harbeth 30.2, various LS3/5a clones, Audio Note AN-J or AN-K (particularly if you have to place speakers near the room corners), Vandersteens, and Neat speakers.  At the low end of your range, I like the Rhythm Bahaava.  I also really like the Tekton Double impacts at the low end of your range.  The new Mo-Fi is a contender too.  Good luck on your search.

I heard a pair of Rosso Fiorentino speakers at Capital Audiofest and they sounded very good.  They sound reasonably fast and clear and delivered impact when called upon to do do without sounding overly harsh or brittle.  I am sorry I don’t recall the specific model (retailed for $17,500, it was a three way, with a sort of pyramid on top of an inverted pyramid appearance).