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modest towers with high WAF for living room?

Looking for opinions on this one. I've been running with Paradigm Studio-20s (V5) for over a year and want to upgrade. This is for our living room, 100% 2ch music. The Studios have been a nice intro into quality speakers. Now, I'm looking for something with a bit more bass presence plus, I want to get away from speaker stands.
My living room is large, 14X24', but we tend to listen at low-mid levels ... jazz, blues, classical, folk, some rock. I don't blast or need "wall thumpers".

I really want these to be nice, attractive, to get buy-in from the wife! ; )

Budget? Well < $2K preferrably, $2500 max.

My priorities: high WAF, sonic upgrade from the Studio20s, modest size ... don't want them to dominate the room.

Some candidate
albireo13
inna
7,923 posts
 
I would do it the other way around. Ask your wife to give you two/three choices and make the final choice yourself. Because it should be yours.
jdoris
972 posts
 
Fritz Carbon 7s are bookshelves.

I'm pretty sure Fritz builds them as towers as well. If you like the sound, give him a call.

John
martykl
3,578 posts
 
Upscale Audio in SoCal has new (but discontinued) Opera Secondas listed at $2K on the "specials" section of their website. These are sorta Sonus Faber wannabes, and I doubt you'll score higher on the WAF side of the equation at $2K.

OTOH, I can't really speak to how they sound. The brand has a decent rep in general, but I've never heard this particular model.

Good Luck,

Marty
dgaylin
255 posts
 
Oh, and Totem Hawks are very nice (and small), but the Forests are definitely better IMHO.
pubul57
3,712 posts
 
A used pair of Merlin VSMs - beautiful in piano black and bass performance (with the BAM) that belies is small footprint.
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