10k Towers with biggest soundstage?

Vandersteen Treo CT for just under $10K. 

Wide soundstage with great highs, mid, and deep bass. They will disappear within the soundstage and are not difficult to drive but as anything else goes they need to be paired with comparable electronics. 

The sound scene should correspond to the recording, the task of the setut is not to enlarge it.

I agree!

Mike

Horns Mummy by Autotech.  Conversation starting look, which isn't for everybody though.  

For under $10,000 nothing can come close to the Magnepan 3.7i. Add to that a good subwoofer like a REL s510. For image size, well, everything else is just some variation of a vibrating cone or two in a box. And sounds like it. At just under 6ft tall and 2ft wide, and most of that moving membrane, the ear senses the size of the Maggie. A couple 6" cones just can't create the same sense of acoustic space.

Having owned and been very frustrated with Maggie 3.5Rs, there are better options with tower type speakers, which are much easier to drive, tall with narrow faces, which don't cut off the room due to being similar in size to 2 doors= much better WAF. The following use ~ 12-18 @ 4-5" vertically stacked drivers, Nearfield Pipedreams, Scaena Loudspeakers, Laufer Teknik "The Note", but there are others. Mostly, you have to be patient to find a used pair in the 10K range