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DeVore Gibbon 8's or Salk Songtowers?

I have enough money in the budget to try one more pair of speakers before calling the whole thing done for another twenty years. Emphasis is on quick, snappy, detail-oriented sound with excellent image, but still silky enough through the mid and treble so as not to overwhelm my slap-happy room. Power is McCormack DNA-HT5, pre is McCormack MAP-1, interconnects by Blue Jeans, power and speaker cables by Element.

If the two finalists are the DeVore Gibbon-8 and the Salk Songtowers (with the previously stated objectives in mind), which pair is the better choice? It's impractical for me to audition either pair before buying and trying.
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I use the Gibbon 8's with both AES tube amp and preamp and with a Simaudio I-5 solid state integrated. They're superb with both. I do love the triode tube sound with them and being able to swap the tubes around but what sold me on the Devores originally was how they sounded with the Simaudio amp.

I haven't heard the Salk speakers.
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