Many many years ago I was taken with the urge to upgrade from the speakers I was running at the time, B&W DM1800 (a remarkably good speaker in its day). I settled on Thiel 2.3. They were fine, but needed a good bit of power. Unwisely, I availed myself of the store's trade-in trade-up program, to 3.6's. By then, I had acquired a pair of Muse 175 monoblocks. Undoubtedly, the most "accurate" system I had assembled, but I just didn't want to listen any more. I returned to the fold with ProAc Response 2.5's, a great speaker--better to my mind than many of their more recent offerings--and subsequently as they aged to PMC Twenty.24's, which I enjoy. After another round of more exhaustive auditioning (that urge again), I'm pretty sure I'm headed towards 40.2's within the next year. I've now heard a lot of makes and models, and to me--just me--nothing I've heard tops them.