Big Daddy Curtis! Grab those little horizontal speakers and come on out! I would be extremely excited to have an opportunity to hear those Ascends.

I'll definitely report my findings - including pics, I suppose.

Keep in mind that I will be biased based by what I have heard already from each speaker in separate environments: I am expecting the MAs to have much better bass and to be a little more forgiving on the top end, but not much I'm guessing. I'm also expecting them to have some unwanted midrange resonances that the M60s do not. In all the listening sessions I have done, there have been no speakers cleaner-sounding than my M60s. And in the 2 years I've had them I'm sure I have been acclimated to what music is "supposed to" sound like (like it sounds through my Axioms! ).

Thanks for the feedback, pards.