Thanks Tom and thanks everyone, too many promising speakers to comment on all, lots of names I have wanted to check out.
Tom yes it was UK Linn I listened to; nice system technology, but the sound was a bit sterile I felt.
I will simply have to take a trip next summer as I said up the coast. I wonder how the east coast would be? West is good, San Diego, and cities all the way up to San Francisco. And you can sleep on the beach.
I can take the One SCs with me to have a consistent benchmark.
I have been thinking though that the One SCs might be OK with a sub. 14x18 is not that huge. I don't use a sub in my study 11x12 or so and it's fine. The ceiling will be high at 14 though.
Thanks all,
Jim