I've owned a PV-12, a PFR, and a Premier 17LS. If you don't care for the newer, more analytical CJ sound -- I didn't -- you won't like the Premier 17LS, which has a reticent and recessed sound.
The PV-12L, from the mid-90s CJ line, is marvelously clear and yet warm and friendly. I stupidly sold mine recently. They're a bargain at their current market prices. I'll probably buy another. I did have a PV-12AL, btw, and liked the older version (non-A version) better.
The PF-R had a pure and dynamic presentation but was insufficiently sensitive at the lower ranges of volume control; it didn't sound good until about 1/4 volume, which was *much* too loud for our living room. Also, though its sound was generally clean and inoffensive. it occasionally exhibited a sort of shoutiness, a bit of excessive forwardness or brightness that became slightly fatiguing.