This is why my trusty Monitor Audio Silvers haven't been shown the door yet. They just work so darned well. I demo'd an SF Olympica with an MC452 driving it and was totally underwhelmed. I come back to my system is far from broken, and have one of the rare moments where I don't want to tinker. I do want to square off some sort of Klipsch vs. Zu on my upstairs system though.