Help with high end bookshelf speakers

Best bookshelves I’ve owned and heard out of many are the Tyler Acoustics Taylo Ref monitors. They use the same Seas drivers as the non-graphene Joseph Audio speakers, along with top shelf crossovers. Tyler no longer lists them on his website but I don’t see why he couldn’t make a custom order pair since all the required parts remain available. 

https://tyleracoustics.com/

For a very affordable option that will trounce most of the usual suspects (Focal, Revel, Harbeth, KEF etc), you could go the minor DIY route with this kit:

https://www.madisoundspeakerstore.com/2-way-speaker-kits/satori-ara-textreme-2-way-speaker-kit-pair-with-cabinets/

All that’s required is installing the cabling, crossovers, damping and drivers.

The drivers in these are first-rate and higher quality than you’ll find in nearly any <$10K speakers you can buy through a dealer.

This assertion will get the undergarments of certain fanboys (Harbeth guys most likely 😂) all up in a bunch. But if they were to earnestly A/B this kit with the aforementioned brands, they’d come to the same conclusion, of that I have zero doubt. The drivers employed by those larger brands are not remotely close to the quality of those Satori units, regardless of those brands’ marketing hyperbole regarding their “custom”, in-house manufacturing and QC.

I wasted far too much time and energy messing with the typical magazine-hyped products early on in my journey. Once you discover the value of kits/DIY, and to a lesser extent, factory-direct brands, the comparatively mass market options begin to feel like highway robbery. The latter mostly survive because they place greater emphasis on cabinet aesthetics than they do actual sound quality.