22 years ago I was on a mission to find the best quality tower speaker design I could find for $10K or less. I listened to a lot of speakers and for the money I didn't hear anything that matched the overall balance, dynamics, transparency, soundstage and ease of listening than a pair of Hales T-5's. They were floor models, so I bought them at a fantastic discount. They were worth 3X what I paid for them and blew away speakers costing 2X as much.
