Best tiny speakers up to 1000 ?

Here's some more info to go on... Speakers are placed on a seven foot wide shelf above the kitchen windows, with about six inches of clearance to the ceiling and six inches of depth. Wife will not allow any other placement. Hey, it's only the kitchen, but I spend a lot of time in here since my home office is in here too.

Given your kitchen specs, I think Sc53's recommendation of the Acoustic Energy sub/sat system could be the winner. Very small and, well reviewed to boot. If that makes any difference.

Will your wife allow you to place a woofer under the dinner table?

I've recently bought Totem Mite and hooked them with audioadvisor offered wall mounts in my kitchen. Then I threaded speaker wires through the walls onto the living room where my main system is located and hooked 2 pair of my speakers through the DIY A/B switch.

My wife WILL NOT allow me to place a woofer under the dinner table or anywhere else in the kitchen period. So the monitor-woofer pleasure isn't available for me for now.

Good point about the sub Marakanetz. Was it difficult to run the wire through the walls?

...not at all difficult, Gunbei. You know what are modern walls are made of -- shit-rack. Just make sure you don't hid the beam or wiring. Get beam/metal seeker in advance.