I highly doubt you made a bad choice. Like anything else in life, there's really no way to know what your preferences are without giving different things a try. Unfortunately, this hobby can be expensive and difficult to try a lot of different things in order to dial-in the "nuances" of your preferences. Maybe you like chocolate. Is there a certain brand? What type of chocolate? Dark? How dark? From what country or region? And so it goes. Know what I mean? I've been in this hobby for around 20 years, maybe longer. I've tried LOTS of gear. CAMs are in my music system and will remain there for the foreseeable future. However, I'm very fond of the RS5 based speakers and will probably buy a pair of HO 3's at some point too. It boils down to those nuances, which can entirely depend on your mood (or type of music you want to listen to and how you want it presented to you at any given moment). Just because 70% dark chocolate from Sweden is your favorite, doesn't mean that you don't find 60% dark chocolate from Mexico also good or maybe even preferable on occasion. I think you'll be happy with the CAMs especially nearfield. They're very flexible, refined, resolving, and really don't misstep.
Yeah, I can dig it. I'm still itching for my CAMs. I sure hope they do the trick. I posted that my listening ranges from Metal to Classical, which is true, but probably the most prevalent music I listen to is somewhere in the middle, e. g. Beatles, Prince, Stevie Wonder, Tom Petty, Springsteen, Neil Young, Jimi Hendrix, The Kinks, Yes and various other prog rock. Oh, and Elvis and Sinatra.
Actually, as far as classical goes, I'm more into chamber music sonatas, wind ensembles, as opposed to huge Mahler type pieces. Light Debbusy, too. I love the blues and small jazz groups, as well.
Metal? Oh, a little Metallica and Slayer now and again. Maybe some older school hip hop like the Beastie Boys and A Tribe Called Quest.
So, I don't know. Canada Rob posted some blurbs on the sound of the various models, which is a good guide, but you can tell it's not the whole picture.
I think I had posted before that I plan on buying a JL F110 sub for this rig. I simply wonder if I should have ordered the SAMs, or would SAMs matter at 3 to 6ft away? I've only got about 5 WPC to play with, so from what I understand that should be fine.