John Phillips wrote:

For Spendor the OP may want to think of the "classic" large standmounters
like the SP1/2E (nominally a direct descendent of the BC1 - see
http://www.spendoraudio.com/HISTORY.HTM) as well as the newer more
prominently advertised "lifestyle" S8.

For Proac the Response series (Response D15, D25 ...) is probably the
appropriate range.

I also had a listen to the PMC FB1 and the Quad 22L (both excellent in
their own ways) before buying the Proac Response D15.

Thank you for your most helpful response. As you have recently compared
the same brands (Spendor, Proac, Quad, etc) that I am thinking about, I
would be most interested to hear about your auditioning experience.

Did you listen to Dynaudios too?

Raghu