Opinions wanted: 10-30K Speakers for Jazz/Folk

@nhb1, since you're near Boston, I highly recommend Goodwin's in Waltham. They have a huge selection and several listening rooms with several different ranges of equipment and very knowledgeable and friendly salespeople. Not pushy in the slightest. They'll sit you down on a couch, give you a tablet for streaming and leave you alone for as long as you want.

I personally have a pair of Magico Mini IIs (stand-mounts) paired with a JL Audio sub and I'm very happy with the sound. Magico makes some great speakers in your price range. I have a narrow listening room, about 13 x 25, and prefer the flexibility of a separate sub with its own room correction. Bass is the hardest to get right in a room. A self-powered sub with automatic room correction will save you a ton of headaches trying to dial in the bass. And you can basically put it anywhere.

Enjoy the shopping and listening phase of your journey. It's one of the best stages of audio purchasing, and you probably won't find yourself in the market that often. So make the most of it. 

MAGICO,ROCKPORT or VIMBERG jump on a pair ASAP!!

I own 2 pair of Emerald Physics OB speakers. The 2.8s are their flagship MSRP was $10K but they're out of production. There's a pair for sale

https://www.usaudiomart.com/search.php?keywords=emerald+physics+&cat_id=25&price_min=&pr...
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See if you can find a Spendor dealer in your neck of the woods. The Spendor D-line might be the ticket!
https://www.spendoraudio.com/d-line-loudspeakers/
The Proac D48r is another option!
https://www.proac-loudspeakers.com/html_files/Speakers.php?Range=Response&Speaker=ResponseD48

@nhb1 Because you love Folk and Jazz you get where this music came from. You want to enjoy the music more. Music that  wasn't made for royalty or oligarchs, it is from and for regular people with challenging lives. You enjoy the soul of the music.

    So here is some advice that may get me ostracized here and which you would probably never get from any dealer. Give $25000 to a worthy charity or a University you respect. Endow a scholarship or help people put out of work by the pandemic. Aid those afflicted by the racism we have yet to come to terms with or a family who has lost it's breadwinner due to the pandemic. Find a music school and create a small scholarship fund. Make a difference in someones life with that money. Help create the folk and jazz of tomorrow.

    Then take whats left and by a pair of KEF LS50 metas  or Magnepan LRS's and a nice subwoofer or two and pair it with a good integrated like the Rogue Sphinx and really enjoy the music!