Best overall Speakers for $2,500.00 or less, New?


Hi, I am looking to purchase some great loudspeakers for $2,500.00 OR LESS brand new.I am NOT interested in mini-monitors.I want floor-standing, almost full-range speakers.
I want great bass, neutrality top-to-bottom, transparency, great imaging and soundstaging, openness, detail, and an extended and airy top-end.
Some of my friends recommended Paradigm 100 v.3's, Triangle Celius, etc.
In your personal experience and opinion, what full-range loudspeakers in this price range are the overall best in most sonic perimeters?
daltonlanny
Thanks for all of your responses.I appreciate all of them, and will consider all of them. Happy listening!
Audes Blues. These speakers reprent a great value ($2,100 new), look cool, present a huge soundstage and are very neutral sounding. They are bi-wireable, have a nominal impedence of 4 ohms and can play loud enough to satisfy most rooms. Look up what people are saying here on Audiogon and on Audioreview.com. You won't be disappointed.