I am much like you; I had some fabulous, at least they were in their day, tower speakers from the 70's which I purchased while in college and working as a campus 'rep' for an audio retailer in the Boston area. They cost me dearly in the day. They were finally killed by a lightning strike which took out my entire system and I almost died with it as my beloved vintage, walnut speakers were gone.
I ended up visiting a high end audio retailer who had multiple floor levels of systems set up with dozens of very cool speakers, some which were extremely expensive. I spent an entire day at this store, starting with the lower end stuff working my way up to the extreme and with each change, I could hear in real time the subtle and not so subtle differences. I finally decided that the Bryston Middle T speakers which were around $5K were by far the best bang for the buck. These speakers were 95% of the best ones he had and twice as good as any of the lesser ones on hand. The sales guy smiled and said that he didn't really want to push me in any direction, but after I voiced my opinion he said he agreed and the Bryston's were among his most favored speakers in the store. They let me take them home for a demo and I had them for around a month. I just fell in love with this speaker..... fast forward> I was so impressed with them that I ended up the phone for quite a long time with James Tanner at Bryston who was the guy behind their speaker project. I asked him what the Model T would do in my situation and he said it is very similar to the Middle T only a major does of steroids have been injected.
That was it, I had to have those and I ended up with the highest level of Model T which is a triple input fully active ready speaker, only I am using the Bryston PX-1 external crossovers which are beasts! These are full mil spec construction internally with air core massive inductors, super duty PC boards and massive components all designed to be used with the Monster Bryston 28B3 monoblocks which are 1800 watts per channel at 4 ohms. My Model T's in Santose Rosewood are around $13K for the pair and if you can afford that budget, I would order them! They come with a 20 year warranty from Bryston. If that is out of budget, I would look at some of the amazing speakers at Axiom Audio in Ontario. They make amazing stuff too and in fact Axiom is the partner with Bryston; they build all of Bryston's speakers. The main differences are the woofer drivers of all of Bryston's big floor towers use 8 inch woofer drivers and Axioms are 6.5 inch. If you don't have a monster listening space, you probably don't need the 8 inch triple woofers like my Model T's. Also if you get anything from Axiom, they are sold direct to the end user from the manufacturer which eliminates a dealer mark up and you get a 30 day trial period; if you don't like what you ordered, they will even pay the return shipping! That is a a great opportunity in my opinion.
Anyway, that is my input for you to consider.
