You're memory must be better than mine...but that's a low bar to hurdle these days.
I've wanted a pair of 2.9's for a long time, and maybe that's what you're thinking of. The 2.5i's are the tower version of my 1.5's, so it would essentially just relieve the need for one set of stands as I use my subs for bass anyway. The more that I think about it, the more my interest is waning. I wouldn't want to put them as my front speakers because one of them would block the SB13-Ultra, which I realized as I was typing this out.