Quote Originally Posted by Jack in Wilmington View Post
I had Monitor 9's ver. 2 and that seems like a lifetime ago. Still have the Mini's from that system doing duty in the family room. When I was at my Paradigm dealer last week, they had picked up Totem Loudspeakers. They had set up the Totem's in the same room as the Paradigm's, so I just did a little comparison between the Monitor 9 ver 6 and the Totem Arro. I actually liked the Paradigm over the Arro. The Mon. 9's had more bottom end weight as they should and a much larger sound stage. I would have liked to compare them to the Sttaf, but they were in the Sonus Faber room with the Totem Wind.

The monitor line must be going on 10 years in production. That's a long time in the ever changing speaker market.
Not much of a comparison really - Most everything beats the Arro which is a boom and sizzle - where's the midrange loudspeakers. I would take the Paradigm and Energy floorstanders (or standmounts) over the Arro (or most other totems) - which is more of a style first speaker maker.