Monitors for a small room - please help

I say buy used to make your money go farther. Plenty of choices here. I concur that the Dynaudio house sound matches your sound preferences very well. My picks from the listings (no affinity to any of the sellers): amps - Yamaha AS2000, Rotel RA-1520 (I really like this little amp), NAD 375BEE, speakers - Revel F12, Dynaudio 52SE (need a high power amp).

Oops, sorry I read again you have a small room and need monitors, so please discount the F12s. I used to own the Dynaudio 52s and think they're really good, but need a kick up the backside to shine. Might be a great choices with the Yamaha or NAD amps I mentioned.

Second the era speakers - I have the peachtree speakers in my office (same company) and I like them so much that I just bought a pair of D4 for the bedroom. Real nice and smooth sound, not finicky at all, I'd be really surprised if you didn't find them to be just the ticket and you'd save some money too

At the risk of falling into the trap of advocating that you "buy what I have" -- advice that many A'gon posters seem to give with many different words -- I will say that my home office is a fairly small room and my system in there makes awfully good music: a Naim Nait 5i and Totem Model One signatures. They'll get your toes a-tappin', and I'm pretty sure you can get those speakers and integrated amp for about $2k on The Gon with careful shopping. Whatever you choose, happy listening.

Thanks for all the input. Just an update, I bought a used Rotel RA-1520 last week and am still awaiting its arrival. I read many reviews on it that say it sounds pretty good, so I'm looking forward to hearing it. Last Saturday I had the chance to listen to a few speakers at a local dealer. I heard the Usher S-520, the Monitor Audio GS-10, and Totem Staff. I honestly think the Usher's were my favorite among those 3. The Totems had significantly better midrange, but sounded a bit bright to me. So I'm probably going to stay away from Totems. The Monitor Audio's were a bit smoother, but still a tad "aggressive"; they were, however, very lively and dynamic. But they definitely struck me as speakers that can get fatiguing. The Ushers did not have quite the refinement as the other two, but were the least fatiguing. They also had very good midrange "snap", and seemed very listenable overall. I have an appointment this Saturday to go hear the speakers that I really have my heart set on, the LSA1 monitors.