I second Rackon's suggestion. A used pair of Alon IIs will give you many of the V's virtues for a lower price that should be around your $1000 benchmark, though lacking a little ultimate resolution and finesse that the V's offer (I would not recommend the IVs). Same with the Alon Lotus speakers. All of the Alon speakers are quite versatile, sounding good with all types of music, and while designed with tube amps as a reference sound fine with solid state as well. Very underrated speakers, in my opinion.
Love My Maggies But.....
I have previously owned Dahlquists DQ10s and Paradigm Reference 60's. Now have Magnepan 2.7s. I really like the no box sound of the Dahlquists and Maggies but do miss the excellent timbre of the Paradigms. The drawback of the Paradigms to my ears was that they sounded too closed in. Are there affordable speakers (around $1000 used) that combine both the openess of the Maggies and the excellent tonal qualities of the Paradigm series?