Go to as many hifi dealers as you can and listen to all in your price range (+25%) and something will pop out at you. Ideally have them setup the amp you use as well (if they carry it), and listen to non-data-compressed music, ideally something in 24/96, and in all the genre's you listen to.
I just went thru this exercise and listened to PSB Imagine T2, Triangle, Dynaudio, B&W 6,7,8, KEF, DefTech, Spendor, and finally Revel F206, which is what I went with (should be arriving tomorrow!). It was above my iniital budget of $2k but since I am going to live with them for 15+ years I was ok with stretching the budget... they do show up used on Audiogon as well.
Some dealers are way better then others, and my biggest complaint with Revel was 8 out of 10 Revel dealers were "installers", which means they dont have a showroom to actually listen to the speakers (I found a great dealer in the end). I tried to listen to Monitor Audio Silver 300's but was not able to find a dealer that I could actually go listen to - I live in a metro area of >10m people (bay area) & could not listen to their freakin speakers.