Well, my path was Stereo Plus>Stereo Extreme>Mono Extreme.
Had I to do it over again, it would have been Stereo Plus>Khartago Mono>Mono Extreme, latter a "maybe" given the efficiency of my Silverline Sonata IIs.
I have the ability to do a direct Stereo<>Mono Extreme comparison and hope to accomplish that during the next week. We've been very pleased with the Mono Extreme configuration so far (3 months).
Karl