My current fave bookshelves: Lenehan Audio ML2Reference. Under 10k with a fair bit of change. Beautifully hand finished and tuned.
Built in the Gold Coast, Australia. Not easy to get an audition but just amazingly well built and sounds just as amazing.
All the money goes to the incredibly inert cabinets (steel clad and braced) and crossover components (Dueland capacitors and resistors and hand wound inductors).
http://www.lenehanaudio.com.au/index...fications.html