Searching for the most "accurate" speaker (below 15K)


I’m looking for the most accurate and resolving speakers (budget is <= 15K). Paradigm Persona 3F, Kef Reference 3 or Focal Sopra 2 are some of the options I can think of. Any opinions on how these compare? Should I had other options to this shortlist? The amplifier is the (absolutely extraordinary) Nagra Classic AMP.

Thanks! :)
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Vermeer:
Another shout out for ATC which make among the purest most natural sounding speakers that I have ever heard. 
The Personas are very good speakers which Audiotroy has been selling all over Audiogon. I've heard them on 3 occasions, including at Audiotroy's set up at the NY Audio show. Audiotroy later said it was the room there, but it wasn't the room as I heard the same issue at another dealer in the showroom. The Personas are very nice, very dynamic but a bit bright and hard IMHO. They use all beryllium tweeters which have a "sound" as all materials do. Listen to the ATCs. Listen to the Personas. I think you will find as I do that the ATCs sound more natural and, to me, more like real music.
Audiotroy:
I need not prove my hearing capabilities to you. Nor are you entitled to waste my time proving anything to you, a naked Persona shill here on Audiogon. Are you paid an extra commission to sell them? I'm not entitled to that answer so don't bother.
If @vermeer wants to pm me about any of my encounters with the Personas which are very good speakers overall, I'll be happy to oblige.
Audiotroy:
You are a loon. How can I hijack a thread which concerns your hijacking of threads and my treatment of you in those threads?
Oh that's right I forgot---you still don't know what hijacking a thread means because you are too busy talking and not listening.
Sigh.

Audiotroy:
Your store has good products, indeed many excellent ones. I’m a fan of ATC, T&A, Legacy, KEF, Stiipoints and many others that it appears you may sell. I actually have no ax to grind. Don’t hijack with never ending "educational" and self promoting pablum and biased dealer opinions and we’ll be fine. Just look at posts by Jonathan Carr, Atmasphere, Audioengr, Kevin Deal (Upscale Audio), Albert Porter (Allnic) and countless others whose opinions many of us here value. They don’t come in to threads that have nothing to do with their products and suggest to OPs to try their products as an alternative to the product at hand. I’m sure they have the urge to talk about their very extensive knowledge and experience and cite chapter and verse of how they came to manufacture or sell what they believe to be the best products of their kind. But they don’t. That is why when they speak, we still listen attentively and often learn.
And you don’t have to claim that you have more integrity than other dealers to sell your stuff. It is simply not necessary. Let the products you sell speak for themselves.
Peace