Opinions wanted: 10-30K Speakers for Jazz/Folk

You should listen to the monitor audio platinum 300 Gen 2 or 500 Gen 2. The 300s were chosen as a reference for one of the reviewers at Stereophile.

Given what you’re looking for I’d definitely make Harbeth speakers a must hear.  They’re voiced starting with the midrange and are very musical speakers.  ProAc, Verity Audio, Rockport Technologies, Sonus Faber, and DeVore would be some other good options off the top of my head.  Best of luck. 

Get off merry go round and buy some Tannoys....you also won't have to spend 30k...maybe 7 to 10k...

MC-give it up, we all know you have no system to talk about and you have no ears to actually hear a good system. There are many good brands of speakers in your price range but some of them will require good quality amps to get the best sound out of them. Some quality speakers to check out are from: Revel Salon2 or Studio2, Wilson, Usher be-10 or be-20’s, Raidho, and others. Or you can go the MC route, buy something you never heard for the cheap and claim it’s better than $1M systems, when he hasn’t actually heard these more expensive systems

I am not sure where you are located but I suggest you look at the Rockport Atria II. I picked up a pair after owning magicos and could not be happier.