Well I made it to the dealer, eventually. To start with, this little day trip was to take place after my doctors appointment, which is along the way to said dealer. My appointment was almost 2 hours delayed, or backed up. After that fun time, I set out on my way to the dealer, which should of been another 2 1/2 hours. Road construction and Toronto rush hour traffic, detours, bad weather, it ended up being around 4 hours further. I got there about half an hour before he closed, so I did not get to hear any of the speakers. My real purpose of the trip was to trade some gear I have towards ordering a Chord Mscaler, so I made sure that transaction was done first. There was no time to demo anything on the day, so it will be pushed back until the day I pick up the Mscaler, with no doctors appointment preceding it. I did however get to physically see three of the speakers, the Proac tab ten Sigs look gorgeous, but are really tiny, much smaller than I imagined. He did say they are quite good for a small moniter. The Kudos super 10’s had been boxed up and sold, I think he said, so nothing on those. The Harbeth Compact 7’s I saw, they look really nice, but no time to hear them, since they were not hooked up. The Audionote I saw too, again, not hooked up, and there was a color mismatch between the two speakers, like one was sat in sunlight, while the other was not. I kind of ruled them out anyway, because of that, and he said they HAVE to be placed in a corner, and up against the wall to work properly, which does not work for me. On a positive note, he has a pair of Neat Ultmatum MF7’s, so I mentioned my local dealer has MF5’s for sale in mint condition, fairly cheap. I asked him his thoughts on those, since he told me he had a pair of MF5’s at one time too. He said that he MUCH preferred the Neats over the 4 speakers I wanted to demo, he also said the Harbeth’s were “boxy” sounding, but some people like that sound, whatever that means. He said the guy who traded the MF7’s in moved to a 30k Kharma speaker, and the guy who had the MF5’s moved to a 24k Kharma speaker, so he thought the MF5’s would be a really good move for me, and they are NOT a speaker he is selling, those are at my local dealer. I also asked him about a Nagra integrated he had for sale, and he praised it to no end, he said Nagra is by far the best sounding brand he carries, which includes Naim by the way. All in all, a disappointing day, demo wise, but I got some good info, and I will make sure I have more time to listen when I pick up the Mscaler in a few weeks. On top of all that, traffic was even worse coming home, and I have to go for another surgery in January, although it is only for cosmetic reasons.