Great Mains for $1000?

check out Axiom M80ti's

www.axiomaudio.com

Used to own Vandy's, and no question they were great 10 years ago! However there are bigger and better speakers on the market for the price.

Meadowlark Kestrals, Maggie mg12s

I have those speakers and I need to say are excellent-excellent speakers. I've read people are saying about Mozart are way better - and I believe is true. For the moment unfortunetly I cannot afford the Mozart.
Anyhow I have the DM601 S3 B&W in my office. And I know alot of people will say well it's not fair to compare since are different line. Yes it's true. All I can say is I listen to both pairs. And it's a big difference. I will not say that B&W perform poor compared with Vienna. But Bach sounds way better then my DM601 S3. I didn't expect to see such a difference. But Vienna Bach sounds exceptional. Probbaly you need to step up for a different B&W line/class to beat those Bach. I hope one day I can afford Mozart.

Mains for Home Theater?

Cerwin Vega CLS 215's....Cant be beat for HT. I run 6 of these bad boys and you just wouldnt believe the Movie sound they produce. Ived owned ML's, Legacys, Magnepans, Paradigms, etc..and for HT, these will spank them. Think clean loud sound with a SVS Ultra per speaker.

If you want 2 channel, there still pretty good, but not a hi end sound. For under 1k, my pick would be Paradigm 80 v2 out of your options. For my 1k, some Magnepan 1.6's