I'm a Polk Audio guy. I have a set of speakers upstairs and downstairs, but I'm not sure if they make something small like you are looking for. When I went speaker shopping a couple of years ago I set out to buy the best sounding speakers to me - forget what the reviews/mags/audiophiles had to say. I'm telling you, Polks were the best and they aren't crazy expensive.
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Okay just looked on the Polk website and I found these bookshelf speakers that may have the look you're after:
http://www.polkaudio.com/homeaudio/r...php?s=rm8#rm85. Unfortunately, it doesn't say anything about price on their site, but I'm sure there isn't any shortage of shops in NY so you will probably be able to find them.
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Okay, so it's a slow day at work for me lol. I looked up all the locations that are supposed to carry that series of speaker in your area and there are quite a few. Best Buy apparently has some solid deals right now in the States (per some people on another forum) so maybe call them.