What is your budget for new speakers?
Floorstanding or stand mount?
The Meadowlark Swifts have one of the weirdest frequency response graphs I've ever seen, (the black line is the one to look at).
http://www.stereophile.com/floorloudspeakers/104meadowlark/index.html#SjMyj6roDh1StYEr.97
Assuming your Thorens TT works save your money towards the cartridge.
I own the Project Carbon with Ortofon Red cartridge and it is a very good combination, no question.
Main speakers in my HT, and I love them, are Usher V602s, in my secondary listening room I have Martin Logan LX16s and I compared them to my old B&W CM1 Concept 90s as well as to the excellent Q Acoustics Concept 20s and the quality of sound was close for all but where the Martin Logan Folded Motion tweeter really shined was when listening to Classical, Jazz or Acoustic music where the improved detail of that tweeter really shone through.
Both speakers are paired with subwoofers; the main HT has a Velodyne DD15+ (msrp over $4k) while the secondary room has two pathetic little Yamaha SW012s at a grand total of $183 for both. :laughing
I have to say while the DD15+ is might impressive, so are the pair of little Yamahas. Having two of them gives a real sense of tight controlled bass down to a true 28hz coming from everywhere/nowhere.
28hz is fine for music but the 15hz of the DD15+ for movies is like twisting the throttle on a literbike! :laughing