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hailtoby · Joined: 29 May 2008 Posts: 99 Location: Cook County, IL

Anybody have any experience with Monitor 9's? If so, whats the skinny on them? A colleague 'may' be upgrading, so I 'may' be able to get these from him.

The speakers I have now are a joke. About two apartments ago, I sacrificed a decent hodge-podge of infinity and polk towers that were taking up too much space. I got an Onkyo HTIB speaker set. You know just the speakers, no receiver or DVD player. They were rated great on CNET, but they sound exactly like I thought Onkyo HTIB speakers would sound, and Ive been dying to get some new speakers.

What would be the most you would pay for a good condition set of Monitor 9s and a matching center channel?

I see no history of the mains on ebay.

**Curt Palme** · Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 2:55 pm Post subject:

You can't go wrong with Paradigms. They're CANADIAN!

Smile

Seriously, I've heard a number of the Paradigms, not sure about the Monitor 9s specifically, but they're decent.

http://www.audioreview.com/cat/speakers/floorstanding-speakers/paradigm/monitor-9/PRD_120353_1594crx.aspx

Looking at the pix, I had a pair of similar tower speakers for a number of years at my old townhouse. They worked and sounded great.

**AnalogRocks** · Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 10:44 pm Post subject:

I've listened to the Monitor 9's. Nice speakers. A little thin on the mid bass if I recall.

I remember liking the Monitor 11P's better at the time. They were fuller sounding.

But hey if you can get them for a 'song' why not? They will be better than HTIB speakers.

hailtoby · Joined: 29 May 2008 Posts: 99 Location: Cook County, IL

I hope I can convince the guy to get new speakers and let me have those. I love playing devil's advocate. Its almost more fun knowing you convinced somebody to do something than actually getting the speakers for a cheap price.

hailtoby · Joined: 29 May 2008 Posts: 99 Location: Cook County, IL

So, I got them. One word..totally f'n awesome. Better than anything I have ever owned. AR, youre right they are a little thin on the bass. I guess thats what subwoofers are for anyway.

My wife even said that it sounds like there is a band in our living room. This coming from the woman who told me there was no difference as I switched between 2 channel and DTS during a movie. This, was, a couple of years ago. I think Im slowly changing her into a audio/videophile in the making.

I guess I can add speakers to the things I like from Canada, which up until this point only had beer on it.

**AnalogRocks** · Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 2:20 am Post subject:

WanMan · Joined: 19 Mar 2006 Posts: 10270

I have a complete set of Paradigm speakers. Not the monitor series, but the Reference Series (100's, ADP, yadda, yadda, yadda), and I love them. I did not think I had an ear and couldn't tell the difference between speakers but I was wrong. If you can get a good set of Monitors for cheap then I say you have nothing to lose.

**kal** · Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 2:07 pm Post subject:

I upgraded a couple of years ago from older Paradigm 11se MK2's. I used them for 15 years as I liked them a lot. Paradigm makes some great bank for the buck speakers.

Kal

hailtoby · Joined: 29 May 2008 Posts: 99 Location: Cook County, IL

**kal** · Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 3:15 pm Post subject:

Sorry, partially correct. This site's hosted in the US (at ATCIHosting.com).

The rest is true however. Smile

Kal

**AnalogRocks** · Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 9:03 pm Post subject: