I'm a big fan of Revel speakers and coughed up the $$ for a pair of 228be mains. I've been looking at reviews of the bookshelf version (126be) and just had to share this as an example of the reviews most people are used to (in contrast to Amir's reviews). It's from Absolute Sound.
"the M126Be is more about a continuous musical embroidery of naturally scaled images within an ambient sound space. This is exactly what I got as I listened to Diana Krall’s “I’ll See You in My Dreams”—there was the sense of sitting-in with the band, feeling the wash of ambience energizing the space, the excellent upper-bass pitch definition, and the bouncy steel-string guitar solo that breaks from the speaker within its own acoustic pocket. "
Hard to describe the reaction to that bit of nonsense. What would a "non ambient sound space" be like
And btw I found the anti-Krall voice I've been looking for in Lucinda Williams. Especially in 6 blocks away her voice makes me think of an older Janis Joplin, some rasp, some slur. 6 blocks away is a fun song and if you turn it up to at least 80 db the final 60 seconds is just the band "let loose" and leaves you with those little skin tingles we all love.