You do not need to make a considerable investment to get GREAT traditional speakers.
I love my Livingroom box speaker it is one of the best ever made, but I recently heard an open baffle speaker, and I am thinking this is the future of speakers. I am now in the queue to get one once it is released very soon. Going to keep both speakers (at least that is the plan).
Interesting thing with open baffle speakers is that they usually run on very low power. I heard the speaker I am getting with a tube headphone amp. The bass section was driven by Class D. The key is how the bass is integrated with the rest of the sound.
It was the best bass I ever heard. Sure, sounded different. There was a bass musician in the room with me when I heard the speakers and when I commented on the bass, he told me that is how bass is supposed to sound.