Monitor Audio Gold 50 vs Studio 89

Alas I live in a Hifi  desert too. When I say my dealer I’m talking to is a  guy in Seattle on a phone. I am three hundred miles away. 

Not able to hear them.

One solution, to find out if that SIZE/TYPE is desirable/acceptable, is to search facebook marketplace, for used, close enough, seller will demo them, get some kind of sense out of it, perhaps take the wife to see/hear some just a bit bigger.  

the reason I mention the wife:

I had these, both my sons loved them, they had parties, everybody wanted them.

Went back to tubes and my current horn speakers, gave them to my older son, he loved them.

He moved to a floating condo (47' Chris craft yacht with broken engine),

He gave them to my younger son. He loved them. He goes to college, stores them, then gets a house, complete with wife.

Gets them out of storage: she says 'they're too big!' 

A young man from those days was remembering them, I said Chris might give them to you. OMG, I made a quick call to Chris who is on vacation, sure he can have them. I have a key to his house, we were there in an hour, he stuffed those puppies in his jeep, they are now playing in his firehouse/home in Bayonne, NJ

This discusses actually hearing something, getting it/them home, disappointed.

https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/disappointments