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
Mjstoyn most large panels suck. Try an image that is out of focus, the large flat diaphram causes diffraction which gives you a very large unfocused soundstage as both your midrange and top end freq are bouncing off the diaphragm.

Add in poor bass your back wave is cancelling out your front wave which leads to no impact. Even with subs not realistic sounding.

Then add in low efficiency and compression when played loud. 

A large poïnt source with room correction does work in a large room.

Go to a live music show ever see a giant set of panels?

Big room you need big dynamic loudspeakers
Other speakers might control the room better, but for getting lost in the musical pleasure, my money would certainly go for a pair of Wilson Audio Sabrinas. Those are not for GAS people, but for those who truly love music!
Mtdining, the Sabrina are excellent loudpeakers that are not designed for this size room. 

You would need a set of Daw or Alexias to provide enough air movement for this size room.

Large room = high efficiency, high spl, deep bass, physically larger loudspeakers.

It is really that simple, for this reason we recommend speakers like the Legacy Focus, Focus XD with Wavelet, or the Aeris they will fill up a large room beautifully, are they the best speakers in the price range that is a different question, they are really great sounding loudspeakers for the money that will work acoustically in the OP's very large space.

Add in the fact that the OP can go perhaps to a Legacy dealer in his state and listen to the speakers or here them at shows is a bonus.

Dave and Troy
Audio Doctor NJ Legacy dealers
@milpai 

I agree with you that the Proac D48 would be a great choice.  I had a pair of D30r's (the D48's sounded great but were too big for my room) powered by a Bryston 14b cube amp and the sound was fantastic.  At the time I was thinking about the Legacy line but thought the Proac's were much more musical and way better looking.  Hope this helps.

I head the Salk Song3 BeAT and the Encore at CAF, and they did indeed run rings about plenty of more expensive speakers, including an utterly uninspiring pair of Personas.

For that room size, look at what may be Salk's masterpiece to date, the SS 9.5, which is larger but related to both BeAT and Encore.