Most “disappeared” speakers.

I bought a pair of Vienna Acoustic Beethovens, rosewood finish, store demos from tweeter around 2004 and 10 years later I decided to upgrade my speakers and sold the VA's first were the R107/2, then the F52's then the salon 1's then the VA strauss then the salon 2's then the usher be-20 dmd's...and finally I went back to a used pair of VA Beethoven's! All the speakers did some things better but at the end of my search for the holy grail of loudspeakers I found out I was really lucky when I stumbled onto the beethovens.

Nice, give a listen to vimberg mimo and other model...i dont think you can find better for 30k. He has a bookshelf that isnt completed yet, coming out...its already pre sold its first run. 

very true about ESL's.  one way around dynamic point sourcing is by using multiple active speakers.  4 beolab 3's with a beolab 2 work extremely well in this regard in one of my rooms.  not so easy or achievable with passive speakers, unless they are hybrids with some ESL component

Electrostats combined with a good sub - sublime. 

OB’s, aka Open Baffles, aka speakers w/o a box design. Combined with 2 subs and a low watt tube amp, very tough to beat for quality sound on a reasonable budget. 

Lx521. Sound field is wide and realistic