At the end of the day, the most repeated advice is also the best: only your ears will tell you. You can try and reduce your list of possible candidates based on reviews or forum posts, but you might be knocking your ideal speaker off your list in the process.
For example, as I said before, the D7 and the D9 have got lots of good press, but when I heard the D7 against the Spendor Classic 100, I much preferred the latter. You might prefer the D7. No one can tell you.
I also auditioned the ProAc D30R. Didn't like it, despite having owned and loved an older ProAc product for many years. Several people whose opinion I respect highly praise the D48R highly. Go figure.
Right now, I'm focusing on Harbeth. Ultimately, instead of wondering about dozens of makes and models that you read about but have no chance of auditioning in person, you have to narrow down to what is practicable (stores within reasonable striking distance, audio shows), and then do the leg work, unless you're willing to gamble that a speaker you'd have liked even more is round the next corner.