Your Pick Between These Two...

Interesting skypunk, I was also looking at the Raven speakers which are offered in a bundle with their Nighthawk MK3 integrated amp for under $7000. There are very few reviews though regarding the Celest towers. Only yours and one other here on Audiogon.

Neither.  

I have heard the Magicos with a £30k Krell preamp. Seemed fine, but as someone on here has written - not too involving. I put my own research company, TrueFidelity £8k,  preamp in and it blew the socks off the Krell. Looked inside the Krell, and the big box was crammed with unnecessary and interfering rubbish. 
So again - as is written above - it depends what you want to drive your Magicos with. Overall I considered it to be a very competent speaker, but expected much more for the price
If someone said  they would swap the Magicos for my B&W 800d3s I would need a serious dosh of money coming my way! And then I would  swap them out ....... But Magico owners still like them, so as usual it is personal listening preferences and budgets

I would second @skypunks  recommendation  to take a look at Raven Audio - their Avian series amps are outstanding and at the price point you're looking at, the Corvus Reference Monitors would be very hard to beat.  They have a 45 day trial period and if you don't like them, send them back.

elliottbnewcombjr - Is neither an option? Your suggestions?

chorus- Thumbs up on Fritz but I don't think he offers a floorstanders.

contuzzi - Neither? And your suggestions?

Really good & interesting comments by the others, thank you.