Wanting to upgrade my speakers

This is a bit long-winded, but I still really really love the Ascend Towers and think they are an unbelievable value. Review, here.

@audiotroy Yamaha under reports their wattage. it is more like:

105 W into 8 ohms   
135 W into 6 ohms   
190 W into 4 ohms   
220 W into 2 ohms for dynamic peaks. That is a good amount of power delivery for an efficient speaker that is stable down to 2 ohm to get to pretty high SPL averages

 Legacy Signature SE are beautiful but out of my price range, trying to stay around 3-5K

Just a comment on speakers.

Their output is dependent on the electronics and room acoustics as well as the sonic expectations. I am familiar with speaker from Wilson, B&W, Focal, Sonus Faber, DynAudio, and many others. They vary somewhat in the general character but are closely clustered on realistic sound. I can assure any perspective buyers that Sonus Faber have absolutely no innate glare, are not thin sounding or heavily colored in themselves, Of course they must be feed an appropriately natural signal with the desire for a natural, realistic, and musical output.