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Looking for a good full range floor stander

Hello all.  Making a good two way system for a 20 x 40x 12 high room budget 12k to 16 k.  Powered by a bryston 14b cubed amp.  Have a surround system with Golden ear ref and surrounds powered by parasound a21 for mains  and Carver cinema grand for surrounds. Like the GEs  The speakers I'm looking for will be for music only lots of jazz (female vocalist a fav), classical, classic rock and roll (70's and up).  I have heard good things about proac k6, Joseph audio, and a few others but am not within 4 hours of audition range.  Real interested in people in the know about the proac or suggestions.  Thanks in advance.
paliden
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glennewdick
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klipsch horn should fill the room. ;-)
richopp
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Since the idea for "tall speakers came from Magnepan and everyone else followed, why not try them LAST and see what you like then?

Nothing lost by trying several IN YOUR ROOM.

Cheers, and good listening!
tweak1
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Two words: Emerald Physics

My room is 19 x 36 with 11 foot vaulted open beam ceilings. Both front and back walls are 50- 90% glass PLUS a open up/down stairwell on the left side

Been using a pair of EP KC IIs and dual SVS subs which do a darn good job with music like; Patricia Barber, Diana Krall, Jacinta, Eagles Hell Freezes Over, lots of large orchestra classical... but expecting to replace them with EP 2.8s ~ $9K soon
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mijostyn
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I'll assume the system will be going on the 20 foot wall. An omnidirectional point source speaker will make a room like that sound like a giant cavern without very significant room treatment. The end result will be that the speaker will get lost in the echos. Keeping the listening position as close in as you can will help. The ultimate speaker for a room like that would be the SoundLabs 945. Unfortunately it will not make it up to a 12 foot ceiling so it will stop behaving as a line source at about 110 Hz. Ideally you would cross over to a subwoofer array there. This all goes way outside your budget but the point is that a line source dipole will project better into a larger room and limit reflections off the floor, ceiling and side walls. This will give you less echo and a better sense of the the stage and image in front of you and it would give you a little more leeway in regards to the listening position. 
The Magnepan 20.7 is in your price range and is a dipole line source down to 150 Hz. It will play the type of music you like effortlessly and if you felt you needed more bass subwoofers could be a future option. They will not play as loud a horns or a large point source so if you were a Metallica fan I would have a hard time recommending them in that room. Otherwise they will sound much more realistic, project better into the room and suffer less from room anomalies than other types of loudspeakers. The next step up is the 30.7 if you happen to find some cash hidden in the Mattress.  
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