Scottyee. You obviously take more care than the average speaker buyer in make a monitor purchase. The main difficulty is choosing your CD's to take with you for auditioning is that there is no guide as to what monitoring system the CD's were mixed with in the first place. This can drastically alter balance and tonal mix of the CD's in question.
I have had first hand experience of this when substituting our brand of speaker for the BBC's standard reference speaker. The mix was more correct on their reference simple because that is what it was mixed on.

Best wishes with your purchase and long may your KEF's perform.

Graham UK.

[This message has been edited by Graham UK (edited 12-22-2003).]