Best skiinny floorstanders

Electrostatic speakers really brings out acoustic, and chamber music type recordings.  If this is what you are used to, then to ease your imaging, space and soundstage addiction, I'd recommend a style of speaker which has di-pole (sp?) arrangement where at a minimum, there is a tweeter that fires at the rear of the upper speaker's cabinet.  This will add to space and soundstage.  When I look for speakers, I look at the mid and tweeter manufacturer they use.  I am particularly fond of Focal/JM Lab drivers and speakers for that matter.  In my main system, I have Von Schweikert VR6 speakers that use Focal's wonderful tweeter firing forward and from the rear in a di-pole manner.  This speaker while not skinny, is an imaging, space, soundstage, air all around champ.  When I play Charlotte Chuch's Ave Maria, it almost brings tears to my eyes - hah!  In my second system, I have JM Lab Mezzo Utopia speakers; these speakers are fabulous also, they literally disappear and then the ethereal experience begins, but with less air, space and ambiance that my VR6s bring.  Focal drivers, especially the mid and tweeter drivers are something real special.  Back to "skinny" speakers, I saw on Ebay a seller I think located in South Orange County California who is selling a set of nice looking JM Lab Divas.  These are skinny; the pair of 8 inch woofers fire from the side rather than straight ahead like conventional cabinets; bass is non directional so this should not matter much.  They are substantially less than the budget you listed; I seem to remember they were close to the $5K mark.  I hope my rambling reply helps.  Cheers!  

Goldenear Triton Ones, One Rs or Reference. The Refs are taller and glossy, the One Rs shorter and glossy, the Ones are the same height as One Rs but have the original covered ’sock’ design. All sound wonderful, but I’d go with the taller Refs if you can.

Another +1 for GoldenEar

I would definitely look at the monitor audio platinum 200 ll or platinum 200 lll