It's my experience that any well designed speaker with a good build quality is going to sound great. They are just going to sound different. It will come down to personal preference. In my little group we have had speakers from Rockport, Avalon, Avantgarde, B&W, Tannoy, PBN Montana, Martin Logan,Volti Audio, and Klipsch. They all made beautiful music. What separated these speakers was not price or design but the room acoustics. Proper speaker placement and room treatment made the biggest difference.