You'd surely be missing out (and so do a lot of audiophiles in the US unfortunately) if you did not try to find out about the XTZ Divine Alpha. Lower priced than your budget, but easily competes with many many $20K speakers out there. Just beautiful looking and sumptuous sounding. Extreme refinement in details, balanced, rather slightly warm, natural, relaxed but yet dynamic without any fatigue(depends on amps too) + tuning possibilities, and easy to switch to active if someday you want to reach audio nirvana. I use it in my secondary setup. My main setup uses $40K speakers. So far I'd put them in front of any speakers I heard up to $25K, including BW800D3.