Kef Blade or Wilson Audio Alexia?

208 sq ft is 13x16 feet. A Wilson Sophia is about the biggest speaker you would want in a room that size unless it's part of a bigger open architecture.

The Absolute Sound review of the KEF Blade was unequivocally favorable. So much so that I was also thinking of getting a pair of Q900s as an affordable consolation prize, or maybe since I have a matched pair of compact subs, the R-300 or 50th Anniversary stand-mounts.

Also, here's a Stereophile evaluation that acknowledges that demos at previous shows were not good, but that this demo was done under much better circumstances and would be on the reviewer's short list.

12-20-12: Rpeluso
Does anyone really make a purchasing decision based on what some random person writes on this forum?

Not likely, but it's probably been the catalyst for many auditions.