Economical full-range floor-standing speaker options?

Great recommendations - thank you. I really would like to try them both CeLest and LSA-20 Statements.

@bubba12 Those Song3’s are beautiful - Wow! Curley Maple with Silver Gray Die and Burst Edge really hits the spot. https://www.salksound.com/gallery/Song3%20BeAT/s3-BeAT-silvergrayburst.jpg

@atmasphere I intended to do a swarm-like sub system originally (and still might), but maybe not best for a bedroom 2-ch system. Currently using plenty of ATI amp driving LXmini and 4x12" Peerless XLS subs in open-baffle config all running through miniDSP4x10HD. I’m thinking about a simpler system with less of everything (especially less complication).

A great set of speakers (that can play full-range flat) and a NAD M33 would be quite simple (only 2 components + phono). At this point (because I’m spoiled by LXmini), I’m thinking Spatial M3 Sapphire (or other open-baffle) are probably the only options that would satisfy. But the cost, is a factor too - is $10k for the ’simple system’ a good value (I ask myself). Has anyone A/B’d LXmini (w/subs) vs M3 Sapphire? Do the Sapphire’s produce the same ’magic’ imaging?

My other option is to spend more time with LXmini incorporating the pair of Hypex FA123 plate amps I have (for this purpose). Then I’ll need to change-up the miniDSP situation and either use the (all digital) nanoDIGI (which I already have from when I tried to improve SQ by using stand-alone DACs) or get a DDRC-22D to add Dirac capability.

Some say spec’s don’t tell whole story, this is certainly true.

However, my perspective is this... we wouldn’t buy other gear that couldn’t reproduce the full audible range accurately, why should speakers be different.
Looking at each component in the chain, why do some people exempt speakers from being fully capable in this regard? Can you imagine a gear manufacurer excusing peaks, dips and shortcomings in their response saying, "frequency response and extention measements don’t matter much". The foundational goal of speaker manufacturers should be complete and accurate sound reproduction - same as with any other gear. Let the user change tone to their liking with gear controls later if they wish; otherwise, the user could be left trying to get something the speaker can’t provide. This is why I look for linear full-range response first, because it seems no less nessessary for speakers than any other gear in the system - shortcomings from anywhere in the chain have equal impact on performance. Why carry perfection through, only to be lost at the final link?