When I was shopping, I was looking for bookshelves and listened to everything I could find. The pair the stood out over all the others were the Paradigm studio 20s. Based on all my research I rolled the dice and ordered the m22s. If money were no object, I probably would have returned them and bought the studio 20s, but to me, the m22s sounded very similar and for less than have the price the value couldn't be beat.

I'm not the only one that has compared the Axioms to the Studio series.

I didn't audition any of the floor standers, but my suspicion is that the Studio 100s would be comparable to the m80s.

M22, QS8, EP350
Yamaha HTR 5860
Sony 46W4100