You guys have probably demo-ed a lot more speakers than I have, but I know what I like when I hear it.
I heard the MA Silver 8s in the same room with the Veritas 2.4s (supposedly better than the C9s?) and the MAs were far and away clearer, better speakers. I had previously liked the Veritas 2.4s, but they had a wooden, wooly and boxy sound in comparison to the MAs. The Energy tweeter seemed a little zingier, too (I mean that in a bad way).
In the one listen I gave the B&W 804s, I thought the upper midrange was ridiculously over present, but it was a crappy listening room. I imagine the M80s are easily worthy of being discussed/compared with this group of speakers.
