So, I do not get a chance to do very many speaker auditions due to where I live. However, I was in Denver yesterday and went to a high end B&M audio store. I really wanted to listen to Paradigms. They had a nice listening room and every Digm in the line. My wife and I listened to the Cinema, Millenia, mini monitor, and Monitor lines. We brought our own source material and we both agreed on everything (how weird is that). It came down to the fact that we liked the biggest center they had-no question there. We strangely agreed that we both liked the Monitor 7 better than the 9...in that room. That room was wide and shallow with no back space. Our room is 15`W and 25` long with viewing smack center. That means about 10` back space. We both loved the Monitor 7 in that room, but I really wanted to love the 9`s! Being that their viewing/listening distance was about half of ours and much wider space, how would one interpret? Square footage of our room is bigger by a bit. Our ceiling is shorter. Their room had 9 floorstanding speakers, 6 subs and 12 or so bookshelves...clutter. my question is this ...if we really like the M7 is it possible that we would like the M9 less? Sorry for the long post, but I get confused with the dichotomy of "you get what you pay for" vs. It is what your ears like".
