What Jay said re colouration. Monitor Audio RS series and Paradigm Studios were the two other speakers that I gave serious consideration to before my leap of faith on the M80s based Axiom setup I now have. My choice was influenced, in large part by price as well as a few forum members here who had compared the M80s to Paradigm Studio 100s favourably. I feel I would have been happy with any of these speakers, though, they all had the detailed, clean sound I was looking for just some were a little pricier. My auditioning also included Klipsh, Energy, Infinity, Mission, and a few others.

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