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Honest opinions on my two picks of loudspeakers

So I wanted to see what most of you thought or what your pick would be between the Revel Salon 2 towers and the McIntosh XR100's I'm torn between both with looks and performances with my choice leaning more toward Mac since I'd be powering them with the 452 and the whole matching thing, but I will also be pushing these quite hard at times (rock-metal) and I want a well built power capable speaker for the long haul..I was considering Wilson's as well and have not cut them out just wanted some respectable opinions on my two narrowed down choices we all are familiar with pricing and these two options have a considerable difference between the two so I'm torn which is the better bang for my bucks!! 

Thanks all..
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j_damon
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@tomic601 
Why RIP Alembic? They are making high end basses and guitars in Santa Rosa, I have a Series I Alembic 6 string from '76 and they are still in business and Ron is still there, his wife and daughter as well.
j_damon
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I should clarify, Ron engineered a pre amp circuit in the instrument with with true variable tone filters and low impedance pickups, the luthier work, which is beautiful and revolutionary and now widely copied, was performed by many including Rick Turner and Doug Irwin 
j_damon
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Ron, not Tom
j_damon
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@tomic601 Ton Wickersham was an engineer at Ampex working on multitrack machines at the time, that’s how the Dead managed to use one of the first multitrack recorders, after that Ron was asked by Owsley to modernize electric guitars and basses, Owsley stated that guitar technology was stuck in the ‘50s, Ron came up with basses first, Jack Cassidy had the first and Phil Lesh has the second one, Ron did other engineering for the Dead and the wall but Alembic was not a pro sound company really, they were all about electric instruments 
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