Thanks for the recommendations, looking for passive as I can move them to a living room later on and upgrade the amplifier.
I am currently going down this route; I wouldn't say it's a bad route but it is non-optimal if all you're concerned about is sound quality. Triply so if you're concerned with nearfield. The price/quality parity doesn't break for passives until you're either talking about a decently large room at very high volume or multi-channel (or both). Amps don't really do anything past a certain point for sound quality, and for most people that point is going to be around the PA5 anyways so you shouldn't be saving up to put more money that way.
Active speakers do have the downside of breaking in potentially unrepairable ways but their track records (from good companies) aren't bad enough to really count that against them at this point in time.
Kali also makes some very well priced active speakers.
But, if you want to have a traditional passive system because you like the construction element of it, or want to do something unusual, I would say the best deal I see for $2000 is a PA5 and Philharmonic BMRs.