A friend of is running Palladium mono-blocks with an AR Preamp, a Creek CD player, with some very expensive Kimber Select cables, and 3.6 Maggies. They are very nice and sounds great but his system retails for about about 15k. He said everytime he upgrades a component, he notices a difference. Do you think comparing these two brands is reasonable, they are so different is design. I would think the the Maggies would win your review hands down??