Most high end stores carry few recievers and mostly quality integrated or separate amplifiers. NAD still makes a variety of integrateds which are there main forte.

I will recommend my own speakers Audio Note AN K Spe for several reasons:

Positioning - The speakers are quite room friendly, they can be placed close to a wall or in a corner. Not right up against a wall but within 10-15cm.

High Sensitivity and High Effiicincy - The speaker is 90db sensitive but never dips below 5ohm making them very tube amp friendly or low watt friendly.

Dynamics and Cohesion - The all Vifa driver and similar balance of drivers sound like music coming from a single driver not a woofer and a tweeter...neat trick that most don't manage.

They are standmounts and require a stand...but if you think about it most floorstanders are standmounts - the only difference is they are supplying a lot of extra cheap wood to serve as a stand instead of good quality high mass metal. Large powerful speakers can overpower smaller rooms and create a lot of bass boom...plus most have to be pulled well out from a wall which hurts Electrostatic and planar designse(they take up the whole bloody room). Though if they're light you can put em away when not in use. Still none have the dynamic realism for rock/dance etc.

Now here's the problem the AN K starts at $1950US and their top AN E goes for over $20K US. But they'll come down. Go find this speaker in your state and any other speaker that dealer carries and compare. I would buy a used amplifier for the remaining amount an use your current source as cd player and put that off for a while.

Other speakers I can suggest but I would try and get the best speakers you can possibly find. The AN speakers are internally upgradeable as is with all of their gear. Complete systems range from 3,000 to roughly $600,000US.

Amplifiers from Arcam, Roksan, Sugden, Audio Refinement can be found new and used for fairly reasonable prices. Another option is if you would like to try tubes to look for Antique Sound Labs AQ1003DT or a company call Cayin...The latter is fairly new and makes some very cheap integrated tube amplifiers with what appears to be top notch parts quality. An integrated from them is around $500.00 - but is an order online type deal so you'd have to buy before you can listen(I prefer paying more for ASL because you can easily find dealers and they offer a superior 5 year warranty. The AQ1003DT is quite nice and comes with a remote and a subwoofer output as well as a built in bias meter. 30 watts all class A for under $1k.

Unfortunately this all has a retail cost of $2950.00. However, you can work deals to get them down...and Audio Note has a new well touted floorstander for under 1k - I have not heard it but they don't seem to make any dreck http://www.audionote.co.uk/reviews/reviews.htm
http://www.audioasylum.com/cgi/m.pl?...48241&review=1 (The follow ups are interesting as well).
http://www.audionote.co.uk/

The ASL Tube amp
http://www.divertech.com/antiquesl.html#INTEGRATED

http://www.sugdenaudio.com/range/a21.htm

There are many other good set-ups from speakers like B&W, Mission, Linn and ampls like Creek, Arcam Roksan etc.

I'm basically hitting the top of your price range ceiling - give it a go and hear for yourself what you give up going with the usual suspects. A bit more for something that will last 20 years is not much in the big scheme of things.