Monitor Audio Silver 6 Speakers

It doesn't matter how good your amplifiers and source material are, if you have poor speakers, poor placement of speakers, or both, you still won't be able to enjoy the music as it was intended.

I've been searching myself for a pair of new stereo speakers to replace my old KEF Q1's.

One of the reasons is that the Q1's are stand mounters , and my room is such that one of them was prone to be knocked of, so I had been looking for floor standing speakers for a while.

After auditioning several models, I've settled on the Monitor Audio Silver 6 speakers in Walnut. They come in a variety of (real wood veneer) finishes, however gloss black and white lacquer is at a premium.
The finishing is superb indeed, which is just as well as they are part of the furniture. The only slight criticism is the plinth, which somehow looks a bit cheap, but is sturdy and gives the speaker added stability.  This is also where the adjustable spikes screw in, which are equipped with easy to adjust lock wheels etc so no need to try and get a wrench/spanner under the plinth to secure things up.

They are compact enough not to be in the way, and large enough to transmit sufficient bass.  Sufficient? Let's make that more than enough for my listening room.  I had to use the supplied foam bungs to plug the rear ports to reduce the bass a little.  This instantly shored things up.

Ideally I wouldn't want to do that, but my listening room is fairly tricky, hence the need. Your mileage may vary.

The Silver 6 is a 2.5 way design and to my ears it appears Monitor Audio has succeeded in making the crossovers from one driver to another seamless.  The 25mm C-cam tweeter sounds clear, open and slightly bright. Don't read this as aggressive, they are not. Perhaps it is because coming from the gentler sounding Q1's that I am hearing things I previously didn't.
My Arcam amplifier is slightly on the polite side so combining these with more forward sounding speakers results in a pleasant balance in my view.

In my room, I had to position them with a slight toe in ,which shored up the stereo image. If your
speakers are closer together, you may find this not to be needed at all.

The tracks I initially played to audition them at home were Chris Isaac's  Wicked Games (remastered), Diana Krall's Temptation, Vangelis' Rosetta , Gregory Porter's Musical Genocide, and finally the Eagles Hotel California live.
All these showcased the precision these speakers posses, bass was low and punchy, but never boomy (speaker positioning plays a part in this of course), and good resolution between instruments. In my listening environment they are placed ever so much too far apart but I didn't get the sense that I had a 'gap' in the middle. If anything, the soundstage was fairly evenly distributed between the speakers and a little behind it.  Compare it to seeing an artist perform live on a stage a little further away, rather than in an intimate setting right in front of you, that kind of feel. It wasn't flat, and in my room, that's all I can wish for.
These should be on the audition list for anyone looking for a new pair of floorstanding speakers.