If you had $12,000 for speakers and amp

Eminent Technology 8s for as little as c. $1200, Quicksilver V4s for $2500 - $3000, an Outlaw 755 or 770 ($1000 - $1700) for the bass modules, and a couple-hundred dollars for the electronic crossover of choice.

You'll end up with GREAT sound--huge, spacious soundstage if you can get them 5 - 7 feet from the front wall, highly transparent and revealing, and well-extended, well-defined, tuneful bass--for c. $7K. Buy better somehting-or-other with the $5K left over.

A caution--if you listen at high levels, say, peaks well over 100dBA, the 8s probably aren't for you. But they fill my 3200CF room VERY easily with FIFTY Watts on the MR/treble!

See my system at http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?vdone&1126390461&read&keyw&zzjeffrey%20s .
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Atmasphere or Joule OTL monos paired w/Coincident Super Eclipses would do it for me.

Depending on your taste and room size, I will suggest:

Sonus Faber Cremona + some tube amps or a good solid state for under $10k

Dynaudio Contour 5.3 or Confidence 2 + a good solid state amp for ~$10k

Verity Parsifal + some tube amps for slightly over $10k

All three speakers will give you lots of listening pleasure.

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Pass Labs X-60tt0's and Martin Logan Prodigy's- 6K each used.