Well I went with the tapco S8s in the end, am very very pleased with them so far.

It came down to a toss-up between them and the fostex, I didn't find anything seriously bad said about either of them... there are definitely a lot of people out there who aren't keen on the alesis M1s though on the other hand :whoops:

Anything was going to be better than what I had beforehand anyway, get in :cheese: