Paradigm or Vandersteen

I once had to choose b/t Paradigm and vandersteen speakers, I came out with the Monitor 7 which is close in price to the 20's, I used solid state equip but the speakers are pretty easy to drive, especially the monitors, I would go with the paradigms in this price range

I agree with the above about his comparison but the 2ces if I remember are almost twice the price of the 1s, and I may be wrong but isn't a passive speaker in the $1500 range and a powered in the same range an unfair comparison, in other words a powered is more expensive to make than a passive so you have to cut corners to fall in the same range, btw how much are you selling the paradigms for?