Just last week I was listen to some Velodyne satelittes and thought they sounded good. I was comparing them to some energy sats which were also good. But in my opinion the Velodynes were better, and they come in silver, so check em out.
I had a pair of B&W LM1's briefly. I had this problem of my receiver going into protect mode when I turned up the volume. I determined the problem was one speaker. So I took it back to the store, the saleman opened it up. There was an exposed wire that with enough vibration would short out. I ended up trading them for DM601's.