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that would be easy if they were sold in store (i know the price would go up ) but just makes it difficult

There's a lot of people willing to give auditions. Where are you located?

Brandon_ G Axiom has a 30 day trial period to audition the speakers in your own home as well. If you feel you find something better you can ship them back to axiom. It is a very painless process. The only downfall is you might have to pay the return shipping. If it would get to that point you could probably work something out with customer support.

Read what this guy says about his M80s compared to his Paradigm Sigs. This is from a guy who obviously has the money to spend on very expensive speakers.

If you are the kind of guy that likes hard evidence, then go to this site and compare the anechoic measurements of the M80V2 to the Studio 100V3. Take the time to read the linked explanations for each measurement.

It looks like Bigwill had the MA S8. I thought he had some for of MAs.

Great links guys, thanks. Great info from soundstage there Fred. I'll spend some time checking out those graphs on some of the other speakers too. I'll probably be out next week to audition some MAs then hopefully get back up to Dwight and hear the M80s soon (about 3 hrs North of me). Looks like you can't go wrong with either of these speakers, but I know already that the MAs are in a higher $$ range, about 20-25% more here.

Mojo and I A/B'd Monitor 11s to M80s and the M80s have more low end and much better detail, for the same price as the Monitor 11's the M80s are a better speaker with similar sonic quality, forward. We could hear string reverberations on the M80s whereas the Monitors could not reveal the same sound, the Studio 100s can do this, but you have to pay quite a bit more to get Studio 100's. I did find the Studio 100 to be a little smoother in the top end when played loud compared to the M80s, are they $1000 smoother, not to me.

Oh, I had thought the Monitor 11s did a little better in that comparison than that!

If I had not heard the M80s previous to the Monitor 11's I would have thought we had found the best speaker for the price, fortunately that was not the case. The 11's are a very good speaker, just not upto the M80s sound quality.

Jay, it appears to me that Axioms probably fit somewhere between Pdigm Monitor and Studio series. You must be paying a premium out west on the Pdigm Monitors though...I can get 11s for $999.00 (Cdn obviously) at the moment. Studio 100s around $2G.