Speaker upgrade for classical music


Hi, I need recommendations for a speaker upgrade. I’m a classical violinist and listen almost exclusively to classical, opera and jazz. No movies, Atmos, etc.  I have a 17x14 listening room (doubles as practice room) with acoustical treatments (phase coherent diffusers at main reflection points and regular ones elsewhere).
Half my listening is in stereo and half in multi-channel (4.0 and 5.1).   All my recordings are either CDs or high-res—DSD and FLAC—audio files. I don’t have a turntable. 

My current system: Marantz SR 8012 amp, Yamaha S1000 CD transport, Exasound e38 DAC and Sigma streamer (connected to the Marantz with analog 5.0 inputs). Speakers: Polk Rti A7 stereo, CSi A6 center, Rti A3 surround, and dual REL T/7i subs. 
What I want: speakers with improved musical detail and clarity that really reproduces the expansiveness of the symphony hall or church. I like a warmer sound than a drier one.  What’s most important to me is to hear what the recording engineer heard. Budget: say 8k or less.

Recommendations?  One other thing: Can I try them out?  And how?  I’m in Santa Fe, not a huge metropolis with lots of audiophile shops. 
Thanks very much. 
ssmaudio

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No product recommendation but just a word of caution: if you care about violin timbre, play very close attention to crossover component quality.
I'm speaking as DIY hobbyist who has played the violin for 30+ years and mostly listened to violin music for 25+ years. I found that sometimes with $20 tweeters, when you use good capacitors, inductors and resistors in the crossover, they can still do a decent job with the string / rosin / wood body texture, but if you have a $200 tweeter via a cheap passive crossover, the textures can be washed out easily. Polk for sure use very cheap crossover components, and some $5K audiophile speakers use cheap components too. And it's not just the capacitor that matters - resistors and inductors affect violin string textures significantly as well.