I ws running Tannoy Proto J's and a Hafler TA1600. But my TA1600 "crapped out". I ended up going w/ the Dynaudio's. I tried really hard to be impartial in the store. I listened to KRK V8, KRK v6,
Tannoy reveal 6d, and BM5a.
I was listening through a Presonus Central Station. I found both KRK's to be lacking detail in the mids compared to the Tannoys or dyn's, and the studio I track in has V8's so I can reference my mixes there any time. But they are loud! I listened to the dyn's first and Tannoys second. I found them really close, but the Dyn's had a bit more detail. I think I would have been happy with the Tannoy's or Dyn's, but the dyn's just had a little more something.
As far as loudness of the Dyn's, I pushed the demo pair pretty hard, up until the red light came on (I think it is the amp overload light) and they are plenty loud for my room. I know what 85-95 db sounds like in my room, and these are plenty loud. Bass response is quite nice, I can hear what instruments are holding the bottom. I can hear the detail in the bass guitar, and the kick thumps nice. Granted, I wouldn't use these for hip hop/drum and bass, but for the rock/punk/metal stuff I work on they sound great. Now I don't want to lead anyone astray here, I think they only spec out to 50hz, so they do not pound the room or anything. But that being said I can hear whats going on down there, and I can tell that these speakers will reduce the amount of CDr trips out to the car.
So long and short I took them home for a little less than $1100 cdn and they through in a couple of mogami/neutrik xlr/trs 10'cables. So I think I did pretty good.
They are in my room right now, and I've been listening to my favorite music and some of my own mixes. The biggest thing I find is I can really hear subtle eq changes and I can hear the reverb/delay effect details and tails. All I can say is I'll be happy learning these monitors, and I think they will be used for many years.