Tri Vista looking for some new speakers

Not to turn this into yet another time-alignment thread, let me say that the folks at Thiel and Musical Fidelity seem to really like the others' work. The Tri-Vista is said to be a power beast and would likely drive any of the thiels quite well. The problem with vandersteens is that you would have trouble running either the 5a or quattro because the Tri-Vista 300 has a pre-out but no power amp in jack. This would make running a speaker with a powered woofer problematic.

I use my Tri Vista 300 to drive my Proac and they sound great. Plenty of power form the Tri Vista and because of the sharpness (not a bad thing) of the hybrid nature of the amp, the Proac rounds it out quite beautifully.

What was it you didn't like about the 1027be? Just to get an impression of you taste. A friend of mine has a tri vista with Dali Helicon 400 mkI speakers. He did modify his speakers by putting in another tweeter. This combo also works great.

If I were you I would also take a look at Verity Audio and Totem wind speakers.