Replacement for Vandersteen 2ce

Also, sorry for the obvious suggestion, make sure you dont have the polarity reversed on your speaker cables.

"Room is 16” wide x 14” deep snd have them 3 feet from back wall toed in slightly and tilted back a few degrees."

In my experience with the 2Ci model, the set up without any toe-in yielded much better results in terms of soundstage and imaging. Also, the use of sound anchor stands and how they're coupled/isolated to/from the floor, depending on the type of floor, made a big difference.
They also scale with the quality of the electronics feeding them.

@kalali okay I will square them off. Yes Sound Anchors with lead shot. Wood floors. 

No toe-in, no rack between the speakers, proper tilt-back per RV, listening seat at least 9'  from plane of speakers, acoustic treatment, acoustic treatment, acoustic treatment. Also try getting speakers closer to front wall, the rear-facing acoustic coupler works wonders that way. Bi-wire almost mandatory. They sound significantly better from mids up with bi-wire setup.

I own a pair of Vandersteen 5As and I had some issues with them.  I use a 100wpc stereo amp as I felt that I only technically needed to power the top half of the speaker since they already have powered sub-woofers in each speaker.  I was playing around this weekend and I hooked up a more powerful amp at 220wpc both of which I made so the only difference was the power technically.  As good as the smaller amp was, and it is outstanding, the larger amp was even better especially in more openness and easy of the music flow.  So before you make the change, speak with JohnnyR and see if yo can try another amp on them.