and have spent MANY hours listening to ML ReQuests driven by adcoms 5400and 5500 in my friends system. my system with the MMGs is driven by a 555II. bright is not a descriptive term to describe the sound of the adcoms.

that fallacy was emitted by people who never heard them. they are smooth, flat and POWERFUL. when i went from the adcom 565 preamp to the audio research sp3a1, the great sound of the arc came right through.

poppa, a pair of MMGs is a bargain and good to have in the house, you may never want to let them go, even if you get some 'stats later. i use a hsu sub with mine with VG results.

MLs are good, acoustats are worth seeking, quad a bit pricey, as are sound labs. i have never owned ESs but would if the opportunity was good. i was here in socal during the heyday of the infinity servostatiks with their infamous modification of the week.

i DID own infinity monitor juniors which were a pretty good system, dome tweets/mids/cone woof tight and flat to 30hz.

good luck on this quest.