Best Speakers to buy if you have $2000, new or used??

[tominator]

Dynaudio is a great speaker and one of my top choices!! Maybe the 82's if I can find some.

Sorry I did not know you have tubes in the system - For near wall try my speakers - you need to use low powered low damping SET amps to get them at their best. Still I dislike suggesting a specific speaker brand in your case - I'd just do some reasearch for speakers effective near wall or in corners. This happens to be one - and they may not be your cup of tea. it's hard not to recommend our personal choices however. I like Dynaudio but they need about 3 feet to work best from what I heard.

[texlle]

I love mine. I just moved my system to a small 10x12 dorm room, so it was really hard to make the system work. But in a small cube with paper thin walls, thin carpet, the acoustics are pretty bad, yet it sounds very nice. My Dyns are about 4 feet apart from one another, and over a foot from the wall behind them. One is over a foot from the side wall, and the other is about 2.5 feet from the side wall.

[Mr Peabody]

If you have to place your speakers next to the wall, front ported designs work best for that. You definitely want to stay away from electrostats or planar.

You can get new Dynaudio Audience for well under $2k unless you were looking for a set of 5. The 52se is $1,500.00 pair. The 52 is $900. a pair. I think the 62 floor standing are around $1200 to 1500.00, I haven't priced them in a while. I'd have to check to see which if any are front ported, I'm sure the 52's are not, I have a pair.