Need feedback on loudspeakers

@kalali,
Why do you think the price of a component would ALWAYS determine it's performance? It sometimes does but not always. My $1.6k preamp spanks a $4.5k preamp. And this was a personal experience in my own system. I also heard the B&W 804D3s, which is more expensive than the T3s. I would take the T3s any day over the B&Ws.

So, I went on a road trip to listen to couple of loudspeakers. At the first dealer, it was PSB Imagine T3 Vs B&W 804D3 Vs Pioneer S-1EX. The front end was a Pioneer DVD player whose optical out was to a McIntosh integrated with a built-in DAC. Cabling was Nordost. Started with the BWs and found that they are not exciting, but portray recordings as-is. Seems pretty neutral. The first CD was Dire Straits BIA (xrcd). Somehow the bass was not strong. But the high frequencies were extended. Then switched to PSBs, whose bass was much better, but not as good as I remembered as on my own SACD at home. So we switched to Eva Cassidy - What A Wonderful World. I know this song so well, and it made comparisons much better. Also bass was good on this recording. I wanted to like the PSBs, but the bass seems to overwhelm the room and (probably because of this) the high frequencies were not as extended as the B&Ws. But the B&Ws seemed to do everything better than when I heard them last time at another dealer. The "presence" on the B&Ws was pretty good - could bring goose bumps, if they would be carefully placed in my room. Lastly switched to the Pioneers. These also loaded the room. I found the PSB and Pioneers sound like thick syrup, unlike the B&Ws which were agile, albeit slightly lesser bass.
Next day headed to another dealer who stocks Focals. Unfortunately the 1038s were not around, but the Sopras 2 were and I was impressed by the demo. I did not find the Be tweeters bright. The front end was a Simaudio CD player and Hegel pre/power amp. I found out that this dealer also stocked Harbeth. So I decided to take a listen to the 3 of them that ranged from $5k-$7k. This demo changed my impression of Harbeth. My experience was bad from AXPONA 2015. But these were really musical speakers and compared so much more favorably to my Quads. The CDP was Line Magnetics and the integrated was the limited edition VPI. I liked the way they imaged, their sound stage and the bass they produced, for their size. I liked the $5k ones better than the $7k ones.
The road trip was worth it, and I am looking forward to go to AXPONA again this year.

Folks, I visited about 5 dealers yesterday to audition different loudspeakers. One thing I realized that, loudspeakers are simply user preferences. No loudspeaker is great and no loudspeaker is bad. How can a brand X, which so may people love, be so bad as some people make it seems. 
With that said, I listened to Dynaudio Contiour 60, Spendor D7, ProAc D30RS, D48R, Sony, Sonus Fabre, PSB T3. My 2 narrowed down choices were theSpendor D7 and the ProAcs. I was amazed by the Spendor D7. These are diminutive speakers that throw a large soundstage. They all go deeper and sounded full. I have read various forums that put them as "bright" or "harsh" sounding. No way. But here's the deal. In front of them, they had an all MBL system with amps, preamp and the cdp that cost at least between $25-$30k. The cables were Stealth that cost probably more than my entire current system.
Now the D30RS were in a humbler system which comprised of a Naim all-in-one player/amp. The cables were also some normal ones (which I did not check, since it did not call for attention). The D30RS sounded pretty good, but slightly darker than the Spndors. So I am confused at this point in time as to which loudspeaker would be better.
With this information, please provide me your feedback on your experience with the 2 loudspeaker. I should also mention that the ProAcs produced the best vocals amongst all the loudspeakers.

Folks,
Wanted to close this post by letting you know that the decision has been made. My ProAc D48R in Ebony are on order. Should get them by end of November or start of December.