Another "Help me choose my speakers" thread

What speakers are you using now? Do you have any experience with the listed speakers at all? Some lines of speakers have a known sound quality, like the Klipsch are known to emphasize upper-end due to the compression driver.  They are also generally sensitive speakers that are easy to drive. So do you want a mellower sound or more of a "live" sound? Also your receiver is 30 wpc so you would want to get some more sensitive speakers if you wanted to drive them harder, probably 90db and above. Finally are you expecting decent bass response? Bookshelves won’t touch the lower end with authority without a sub. Some towers in that price range might also cut off around 50hz. But if you are after accuracy and soundstage in that sized room I would go for book shelves over floorstanders in that price range. Used would open up a lot of possibilities around $1k especially vintage. I would go that route before newer big box offerings personally.

+++++++ for the Vandersteen 1c or even the current 1ci IF you can find a used pair. The Sound anchor stands are very worthwhile also

Brother in law has them in a room a bit larger than yours w stellar results.

have fun

enjoy the music.

Right now I have Bose 301's... I have read terrible things on here about them, but there were a huge upgrade from my Cerwin Vega Re25's. Obviously, I'm kind of new to the idea of spending $1000 on a pair of speakers. 

I do not have experience with the speakers I listed. Honestly, the best setup I've ever listened to is a NAD 2500 pushing Klipsch KG4's. The owner of this setup was told by an audiophile that he needs to upgrade his speakers to something more in the $1000 ballpark and the difference would be very satisfying.

Klipsch was the first brand I started researching, until I found a thread on here that basically said Marantz and Klipsch don't pair well together.

I don't need something that sounds perfectly natural and flat, I'd like something that sucks you right into the music without any harshness.

As far as bass response, I would like it much upgraded from the 301's, but I don't want to put a lot of emphasis on that when deciding. It's not that important to me. I won't be running a subwoofer... At least not for a few years 

Thank everyone for the responses, keep the suggestions coming!

I'll be scoping out the site for Vandersteen 1c's

I had a similar budget for a secondary system in an 11x13’ room. I bought the Tekton Lore Reference speakers and loved them! They are paired with a Musical Fidelity intergrated and an older Sony ES CD player.
In fact, I was so impressed that I then bought the Tekton Double Impacts for my main system. Fabulous speakers!
I would suggest looking at the Tekton line of loudspeakers, for sure.