I completely understand your interest. I highly recommend a trip. Plan a weekend in Atlanta or a city with some good high end audio stores. Make it a fun weekend. Make appointments with one or more audio stores. Ones with Sonus Faber speakers, Wilson, and Magico as a minimum.
This is a worthwhile investment. You want to fall in love with the sound. For me after decades chasing planar speakers it was Sonus Faber. You should also listen to The others I mentioned… although I am pretty sure this is absolutely not the direction you want to go.
For me Sonus Faber and Audio Research offered great detail and incredible musicality… I get captured buy the musicality of my system every day… I have to drag myself away from my system each day… even though I listen three and a half hours a day.