Hi Nickba,
While I'd be delighted if you gave Axiom's M80s a 30-day trial, I suspect that if you put both pairs behind an acoustically transparent curtain, and switched back and forth between the M80s and the Paradigm S8s, you'd find their respective sound signatures "similarly good". Not exactly alike, but very close, and your preference for one over the other may vary with each selection of music.
I say that having done hundreds of double-blind comparisons of many brands of speakers originally developed at the National Research Council in Ottawa (plus lots of others). I've heard the Paradigm Signature models and they are very good, if a little upper bass-heavy, which is a Paradigm characteristic I've noted from their earliest models. I heard the large Signature center channel, and while it's excellent, it's no better than Axiom's new VP180 center and it's a lot more costly.
Regards,
Alan
