If you can find them used, you may want to try the Consonance Eric-3 floorstanders... Very slim and shallow profile makes them take up no more space than a standmount. Quite impressive sound... They go for under 2K new, so I would figure 1K used would be about right...
New, you should check out the Consonance Eric-1s at just under 1K... They are my favorite standmounts in the 1K and below range... *Very* impressive sound coming from these inexpensive speakers...
---Dave