i suppose it wouldn't hurt to ask your opinion this early about how dyne-As stand up against other speakers, specifically using a mid-fi amp.
When I put together my Home Theater system, I literally auditioned everything in the market: Paradigm, Definitive Technology, ProAc at Audio Den, Acoustic Energy,Sonus Faber, NHT, and PSB at Upscale, Energy, Dunlavy, Revel, at Audio Visual Driver, B&W and Mission at Sights & Sounds, etc., etc., etc.
After round 1, the Dynaudio Audience series came out on top.
In a National Geo or Discovery Channel documentary, they featured once a study made by various scientists where quantitatively, they linked what people perceive as beauty as an average of all the available options, e.g., what people consider to be a beautiful face is a nose that is the average of many different noses found on humans, ditto for eyes, cheeks, etc. What has this got to do with Dynaudio's?
In one word, balance. Dyns get that right. No one feature stands out like bass (w/c is stupendous for the size), the midrange (which is invovlving) or the treble (smooth, smooth highs). The Dyns shine in all these aspects.
So I went on round 2 of my speaker selection process where deliberately, I compared the Dynaudio to speakers far more expensive than the Audience line. The Dunlavy was a good 3 times the price, B&W's CDM (SE pa lang noon, hindi pa umaabot dito ang NT) series was a good 2 times the price. All that did was establish the Dynaudios as stonking value for money.
Check out
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Pinoydiophiles. Lots of Dynaudio users there (also Sonus Faber, couple of B&Ws and Martin Logans, etc.), including one with the Contour 1.3SE! I'm sure you'll get more info there.