Best speakers to buy for around $1,500

What's your source? Type of music you listen to? Room size and acoustics? Can you live without the last couple of octaves? (bass is the most expensive part). Do you have a good dealer near you? So many choices and most will just tell you what they have and like, but maybe they've not heard speakers in your range in a long time.

Check out the Magneplanar .7 and the Vandersteen 1C. Both are in your price range.

MusicDirect Focal closeout. $2700/pr speakers for $1499, new w/warranty. It's a lot of very high quality speaker for that money.

I also like the Magneplanars a lot and my main pair are 1.7s, but in transitioning from Cerwin-Vega, the Focals will give you more of the slam, plus a captivating, airy soundstage, small footprint, and easy matching to your amplification.

What are you looking to improve upon? What aspects of sound reproduction and speaker characteristics are most important to you? Without this info it's impossible to make a good recommendation.

Revel Concerta F12: http://www.revelspeakers.com/productdetail/~/product/f12.html

JBL L890: http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/407272-REG/JBL_L890_H_L890_Studio_L_Series.html

P.S. That Focal speaker looks good. I would definitely check that one out.