but compare speakers who's engineers have the same design goal(which should be a flat freq response through it's range).
That was what I ment way back in the thread when I said similar sound.
I know if I were to blind test Paradigm Studio 100's, Monitor Audio Gold's and M80s I am pretty sure I wouldn't know which is which, especially through an entire listening session including various types of music as each would excell at some and not with others. Blind testing can allow for a more bias free approach to speaker comparisons, it isn't perfect but the best one can do, IMO.