Picking Speakers 20k-30k

That's a nice budget to play with.

"current speakers (Persona 3f) are about 4 feet from side walls and 2 feet from back wall."

If 2 feet are the max any speaker can be pushed out into the room(aesthetics/S.O) then you're possibly not hearing them in their "best" position.

@grislybutter fun topic, thanks for the link!  And, yes, I’ve learned that i may as well show her a picture early in the process because it can save me from reading every review/comment/smoke signal accessible only to find that it’s too ugly to go in the great room. 

@tablejockey since I’m sitting in the room I thought I’d actually measure because my prior comment was a guess from memory.  Speakers are actually about 6 ft from the side walls and about 20” from rear.  I had them further out previously but couldn’t perceive any improvement so ultimately placed them as far back as i could w/o issue (for aesthetics).

@vthokie83 Thanks, I’ll have a look!

I don't know what it is about this site a lack of knowledge of Legacy Speakers. They build systems for Sheik's, all the way to systems like you're looking for. Do yourself a favor and at least give Bill a shout. I have one of their lower systems although I do have over 30 grand in their speakers.

 https://legacyaudio.com/

@nitrobob Legacy were on my shortlist when I was first speaker shopping a year or two ago.  I have a local dealer that carries them but the showroom was essentially 300 (literally) boxes of crappy Klipsch speakers- not a comment on Klipsch, they just had a crazy amount of their lowest end speakers- and they had one bookshelf Legacy that i could audition.  Didn’t do a lot for me (the listening conditions were comically bad) and i sort of disregarded them as an option but I’ve always been curious about Legacy speakers.  Plus they’re damn attractive so i know the wife wouldn’t shoot them down.  Maybe i need to stop back at that dealer.