Might be time to start doing some listening to Archive recordings and see what you like.
For $1000, either new or used, you could get:
Neumann km184s
AKG 480s
Beyer MC930
MBHO's
Peluso's
ADK TL's
I'm sure there are more, but those are a few. I think used Gefell m300's (if you can ever find them) would be outside that range, as are schoeps and DPAs, but you'll have a lot of choices at $1k and under.