Floorstanding speaker experiences/recommendations in the $12-25k range

You have a cool system, and the Octave has more guts than most tube amps, particularly with the black box.  I know one dealer who has paired it with Wilson Sabrinas and really likes the combo.  Re speakers, I heard some Rethm Trishnas at Capital Audio Fest - only $10k! - and they were shockingly good.  For your size room, you’d probably want to go up to at least to the Maargas, which are still only $13k!  Bear in mind that I find myself increasingly drawn to single driver style speakers, or variants thereto, as they seem to capture the intimacy of recordings better than inefficient designs (to my ears of course). And with tubes and vinyl? oh my!

You should listen to used Vandersteen Quatro wood CT’s , or for slightly larger speakers the 5 CT’s. The 5 s were just replaced by the Kintos. So their price on the used 5s have gone down.  I have the quatros and they are great. 

Another vote for the Joseph Audio Perspectives Graphene. They are a good match to your Rega and more importantly, I have found them to be both revealing and "non-tiring" over long listening sessions. 

Used Focal Scala Utopia EVOs are in that range or just above it.  

I always suggest to guys that if they like the brand they have to stick with it and just go up the food chain. That said, Dali has some nice sounding speakers ans the epicure line is so old deals shouldn't be to difficult.