Opinions wanted: 10-30K Speakers for Jazz/Folk


See title, which speakers would you suggest auditioning and how would you describe their sound? Price can be new or used.

Looking for specific recommendations and how you’d describe their sounds ie crisp, warm, whatever. Again I enjoy mostly jazz and folk with nice vocals. If you care to share amps you think pair well or ones to avoid feel free! Please spare me responses on why it’s different for everyone or how my question is somehow flawed, just looking for some of your opinions/recommendations, thank you.
nhb1

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Thank you for the detailed response  @verdantaudio  

Some more info, room is 14x18 feet and speakers can be anywhere but will be facing the longer dimension. No sub and I prefer floorstanding partially for that reason. I hope to install some acoustic tx, perhaps I will use some software on my laptop or something. Energy usage does not matter to me.  Was thinking solid state but could be convinced otherwise. I really like mids/vocals coming through, as for immersion that's tough for me to say. Anyway there's a little bit more info.  

Can I ask if you have any experience with audio note gear, marten design speakers, or spectral amps? Someone suggested these. Feel free to suggest others or expand on those you mentioned given this info, appreciate your thoughts, I know my ask is a bit vague :-)  
Thank you to everyone, luckily I am able to hear most of these brands as I am not too far from Boston. 

Can I ask those of you who have heard audio note speakers, how would you describe their sound and what other speaker company might you liken it to? I will be listening to those soon... hopefully!

@willgolf I got a kick out of the viking website. Checking out what the have to say critics, seeing mostly good feedback. Unsure about how horns effect sound, will read up.

@bassdude good call on apoxna, are there many 20k speakers there? All the pics I see are of insane $$$ gear. Insane that 20k is not insane in this world!

@p05129 who is MC and which speakers are you referring to?
LOL anyway back to loudspeakers, I was over on another forum where so many people seem to love Revel speakers. These folks state the engineering is top notch despite the lower price tag. Is revel really all that?