Moderate floorstanders for medium room

Although your room might be too large for them, I would look into Silverline Audio Preludes (~$1200/pr). They are as close to full range as smaller towers can be, image wonderfully, and will work well with 75 watts/channel. Just check with Silverline (you can speak to designer Alan Yun directly) to make sure your room isn't too big. The finish is nice, but within your budget, I doubt you'll find furniture-grade finishes (unless you find something used, perhaps).

Your room is pretty large, so I'd consider a subwoofer for extended bass response. The 12" SVS is app $650, and I'd also add a controller (I use the Velodyne SMS-1 at app $500) for best integration. The remaining $850 can buy some excellent smallish main speakers from many different manufacturers, new or used.

Good Luck

Marty

PS - I have a pair of Silverline Preludes in my gym and they're certainly a good choice for extended bass/small footprint (especially at the $), but I suspect that your room may be a bit too large for best results.

I don't know if you would consider a dunlavy scIII moderate
size but I think it would meet your goals.

good god, man, those things are like totem poles...how would you ever consider that remotely moderate? i suppose if in the family room he could always string a hammock between them...

Their footprint is small;only the height maybe the issue;however they are fullrange with excellant perfomance parameters which meet his requirements.