dear mkaiser,
what you may consider is that the choice of a speaker, a typical brand, a particular sound, is a cultural choice!
I believe in Klipsch beeing a GREAT brand, producing wonderful speakers, but even as a teen ager I had always chosen kind of english speakers, first kef, then rogers, lastly proac.......although I had organized a listening session with Klipsch's, also with JM Lab, Infinity (in the 80's!), etc.
It is 15 years now I've been definitively appreciating proac sound.
When you are able to comprehend and follow your natural tastes, you "musically grow" tending to a certain sound, it's not a choice at the beginning, it's a natural tendency, then, through the years, it becomes a baseline, thus a choice just among few brands close to your own taste.
I'm sure that on this table I'll never find out someone badly talkin' about PMC, expecially mv....83.
Nevertheless, I wanna take the risk, also thanks to the extreme kindness and skill of the italian PMC distributor, Mr. Baratto.