Little two-way boxes on a stand....

A two way box on a stand can, like all catagories of speakers, can be great or not so hot...  Just like the Golf GTI was a great car in it's catagory,  was it a Porsche, Lotus or a Ferrari...well it wasn't trying to be.  A great dark beer from Capital Brewery or Anchor Steam are great beers, are they Dominus or Lafite...well no....but they are still great beer.

I give you the harbeth p3ser and the wharfedale diamond 225’s both great standmount 2-ways in their own right. Me, I now own Tannoy legacy "standmount" 2-ways (concentric drivers) and to call them standmounters is a stretch...they might as well be floorstanders as they are behemoths!

Try Alta Celesta's. They wear tailored by Armani.

My older Sonus Farber Concertos have clothes in my current set-up. 

Add a sub and they sound just as big as a floor stander.