I believe I got the second pair of M35s sold in the US. They have replaced the Magnepan 20.7s I was using previously. Sonically these are great sounding speakers with some limitations. I have had trouble with arcing in the panels playing classical music at very loud levels. It is unclear if that is problem specific to my pair or a general reason for concern. Oddly, it has only occurred with symphonic classical music. I have also run into buzzing on a couple of tracks, typically with lower frequency stringed instruments, i.e. cello or bass guitar. It seems likely that the panel is vibrating in the frame but it is possible there is some sort of resonance in the panel. Again, I have no idea if that is limited to the first models that were manufactured or occurs more widely. So far there have only been four tracks over many hundreds of hours of listening that have been an issue but ... In my conversations with Ravi he has promised that those problems with my speakers will be addressed sometime in the future so I am not overly concerned and the speakers really do sound fantastic.