suggestions please

I heard the Von Schweikert VR22 at RMAF this year and ended up purchasing a pair as a graduation gift. These are overachievers, competitive well beyond their $2850 a pair price (factory direct including shipping) with a 90 day in home trial.

If you liked the Paradigms, you might also like NHT Fours.

Everyone is raving about the Tekton M-Lores and the Gallo Classico CL-3, these should be on your short list of speakers to audition. The Tektons are very efficient, they will play *very* loud with that amp...

And both of these speakers are in a class above the Paradigms. No offense to Paradigm, but them's the facts...

-RW-

"Paradigms are generally easy to drive but can sound VERY bright in hard rooms,just as Vandersteens are voiced warm so in soft rooms usually sound veiled & fat."

Right about the Paradigm, wrong about the Vandersteen. The only way you can come up with that description of the Vandersteen's is if you either really mess up when you do the equipment matching and setup, read old magazine reviews (the reviewers usually screw up, as well) or just repeat common opinions that people generally hold to be true because of the first 2 reasons I just mentioned. I guess you could also prefer, or be used to listening to really bright equipment as well.

Actually, its far easier to have a situation where Vandersteen's can sound bright or harsh. Setup is everything with them.