...the Vienna Acoustics Shonberg? When I first saw pix of these, I thought (not sure why) these were going to be very large... that's not the case. They don't require much floorspace at all.

You can read about them on their web, but it's a 2.5-way speaker with a smooth soft-dome tweeter. Your better half will probably be happy with the aesthetics.

Uh, oh... the price thing - actually, I forgot. IIRC, they're about $2500.