BEST SPEAKER TO MATCH..

What kind of music do you listen to? Is this a two channel only system, or also meant to be used as a HT set-up? Budget for speakers? Any physical limitations in terms of placement? Jeff

Thanks for all your advise...my system is a stereo set up and my boyfriend system is a combination of KRELL MONO AND PRE-AMP with a matching PROAC speaker..now on my budget is around $1500 for the speaker and I will pay for it not my boyfriend and my sound preference is jazz, blues and soft rock .

If you are willing to be patient, and buy used gear, look for a pair of Vandersteen 3A's which are sometimes available for around $1750-1800. Excellent, full-range speaker system that does very well with high-powered transistor amps. The chances are reasonably good that your hearing is better than you boyfriend's, so let your own ears be the guide.

Highly agree w/ sdcampbell.If you can swing the $ try for the Vandy 3A Signature.

I'm using the Sunfire amp to drive the woofers, and 2 channels of a Sunfire Cinema Grand to drive the mid/tweet array in my NHT 3.3's, and a Balanced Audio Design VK-3i preamp. Sweeeeet! Too much power is my creed. But I think given the investment you've made in your components, a speaker upgrade might be in order. Something to throw down a little more LF output. Maybe a powered subwoofer would be in order? Your 2.5i's are quite worthy (those are my surround speakers), but do lack bass impact.