???YOUR Personal Favorite???Why???

My Dad has a pair of Sonus Faber Electa Amator III and they are excellent. They have great bass for a small speaker.  They sound huge and scale like no small speaker has a right to.    Excellent speaker. 

Focal Sopra No.1.  Better than B&W 805 D4, and to me even than Focal Utopia Diablo.  New Dali Epikore looks interesting.

I have not heard a 2-way stand mount under 15K US that I would recommend over a similarly priced 3-way or floor standing speaker. 

Joseph Audio pulsar 2 graphene are some of the most musical speakers I’ve ever heard and probably my favorite, but never owned them. Slightly higher than your budget of $15k would be the QLN signatures. I own the Prestige 5s and just love the tonal balance of QLN…never fatiguing, midrange reproduction of instrument and vocal timber is near perfect, excellent on all musical genres. They make a standmount 2-way called the Prestige1, but haven’t heard it.

JBL L19/4301

theyre really good

i like those minimus 7 too. always impressive how good they sound.