Speaker choice, help please.

Just to get things going I will state my opinion.
I am enamored with single driver, crossoverless speakers, and will be from now on. I am presently the owner of a wonderful pair of Ocellia Tilias, which use an 8 inch driver from Phy-Hp and a custom designed Piezo cone for frequencies above 11KHz, and they won a "golden Ear" arward from The Absolute Sound magazine, and a pair of Diatone based full range speakers from EIFL in Japan with bass relex cabinets from Wood B. Lansing. If you are in search of musicality, single driver crossoverless speakers speak the truth, even with their bandwidth limitations. I drive my main system with a custom made 300B from 3D Audio, and a custom made passive preamp.
I have heard Sonus Faber speakers in systems before, and have found them great to listen to for awhile but not for me as far as living with them. I listen to MUSIC, not Sound.
Best of luck in your search for the Truth in Music.
Regards,

If you like Sonus Faber, you might want to consider Chario Millenium 1 or 2, supposidly very good.

I couldn't say it any better than Array1138. It sure sounds like your headed towards the single drivers! I never heard the PHY-Hp ...but would love too. Very high quality drivers no doubt!

If budgets not a concern .You have a host of great single driver speakers out there that will do exactly what you want. Given the distance from the rear wall .You probably need a speaker cabinet that vents to the front or side.

I also have spent much time listening to Sonus Faber. Very easy to listen too speaker. But a crossoverless single driver will make them sound like you threw a blanket over them. There's so much more info delivered from the midrange in this type of speaker IMHO. Strings have a electrostatic quality..very fast and immediate. Also don't get caught up on just the dealer network wide range speakers.There's plenty of smaller companies that give you more of what you pay for. Here's a few links to get you started.

Good luck!

ZHorns. The JORDAN JX92S driver TL maybe a speaker to look at or the zHorn Heruka uses the Fostex FE 168 E Sigma driver, a 6.5 inch driver.

Carolina Audio. Basically the same Jordan driver implementation..different company.

Brines Acoustics. Maybe a LT-2000 or the FT-1600 MK2 if you want to eliminate the subwoofer in the system.

The Horne Shoppe. If you want to go with the corner loaded approach.This maybe the speaker.

As I said plenty more ..this is just a start! The good thing about some of these companies is a money back guarantee..try before you truly buy.

shahinian or gradient revolution.....or stck with the signums

Array1138
I was just checking out your speakers Cellia ! Man those are lovely!! The Calliope.30 looks like a force to be reckon with as well. When you get tired of them..hit me up.:-)

Good listening!