OP trust your ears. What you hear > any review. Don’t turn away from something that sounded good to you because of a review. Your ear is the final judge.
FWIW, I had a set of KEF LS50’s for a small room. This was the original version. To my ear, they were lifeless unless they were doing 90 dB at my listening position, eight feet away from the speakers. Played at concert-level SPL, I began to understand how they earned the love of the audiophile press. But I sent them back anyway. What made the audiophile press love them did not work for me.
Doing a home audition with Fritz might be worthwhile, especially if your nearest HiFi shop will let you take home your leading candidate from there to compare.