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Smoke jumpers have a pat answer to the question, "What brand of cigarettes are you smoking?"
Whatever brand you are! 
Brand is a personal preference and choice.
$2-2.5K could be a little or a lot. And it's doesn't help eliminate many contenders.
How much monolight you need depends on how far you want to go and how much you want to do with it. I've had a real michmash of equipment over the years chasing this brand or that. I've settled on one system over the years, but I still use a wide range of products from some very inexpensive Interfits that work just fine to the Elinchrom 600RX's, which are cutting edge monolights that leave little left to be desired but would quickly blow your budget.
There is a tremendous range of quality products and brands capable of providing good performance that can meet your needs. You would do better to define your needs more specifcally than open the door to a pointless debate over which brand is best. Brand is important but it should really be the final determining factor not the first consideration in determining your needs. Would you limit yourself to one car brand before you looked at all mini-vans in a particular price range, if that is what you wanted?
What is important to look for in a brand when all else is considered is breadth of products, depth of system, availability, technical knowlegebase, customer service and possibly rental support.
Fortunately for you that covers almost too many brands to list without surely leaving someone out. Having said that there a number of brands that continue to surface to the top of the heap, not because they are necessarily the best but because, like Nikon and Canon, they work very hard to maintain their share and position in the market.
Good luck.
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