I will post more tomorrow on this if anyone is interested, but today a friend and I went to audition several sets of speakers including:
Primary Test music:
Holly Cole Trio- I Can See Clearly Now (vocals, bass, clarity, high notes)
Ambrosian Junior Choir- Sao Gan (vocals, pitch, echo)
Future Sounds of London- Unknown track (bass notes, detailed low end, stereo imaging)
Ashley Macissac- Sleepy Maggie (stereo imaging, complex midrange menagerie)
If anyone would like to hear some short opinions, i can provide them with comparisons to my own home speakers, the
Axiom M60s and Tannoy Definition D700s.
**Please note, these speakers were not auditioned in any A/B fashion and were not hooked up to all the same source equipment although all were connected to typical home SS units including a Denon 3803, NAD C740. The Monitor Audio speakers were also auditioned on Musical Fidelity tube amps and tube CDp.
Auditions involved 2 ppl whom for the most part concurred on the general sound characteristics of each speaker.
Volumes were not SPL meter matched and were approximated by ear only.
Room acoustics were taken into mental consideration especially for echo and bass response to the best our minds could comprehend.** 
