best small room 2 channel set up for under $2ooo

I probably will get beat for this in an "audiophile" community, but I was thinking Mackie HR824 Active Monitor's may serve your purpose for bedroom and sound good. They are moniters after all. They're powered, so you'd really only need to feed them from a source. They can be found for $650 each and the remainder would fuel a CD player, etc.

Good luck.

Music Hall trio cd/receiver and a small pair of speakers designed for bookshelves (ie linn).

Well you would be have to make some grave errors to not get good to very good sound with your 2k budget...you could even do it for alot less...trends little amp(has only one input) for power(less than $200)...a source of your choosing....and some nice small speakers...however...no speaker performs at its best on a shelf...if that is the only solution...maybe a sealed design of front firing port variety....good luck!

Do the speakers actually have to go onto a bookshelf? If so, you need to consider positioning and such, and there are relatively few small speakers that will sound good on an actual bookshelf.

If, on the other hand, what you're looking for is small speakers, then you have opened your possibilities substantially.

For small rooms, I like the Totem Arro's. Not quite bookshelf speakers, but they are small and image like nobody's business. The best budget pairing I've heard with it is the Jolida 302b. Add a strong budget CD player such as one of the Oppo's or a Music Hall CD-25 or Rotel and you're in business.

Michael