Advice requested on speakers

If you can afford 5As, I would say go for it.
100wpc is more then enough for Vandys and AR is a well know preferences with these speakers.

I would also like to touch on "in room placement flexibility" with an 11-band equalizer - standard feature on 5A and Quatro Wood version speakers.
It allow the best integration to be obtained with the owner's room acoustics and you can not take it for granted if the room placement and acoustics are of any importance to you.

Just my 2c

Good luck

Mariusz

For timbral accuracy and sound staging I would suggest you audition Merlin VSM-MXe, they are simply more timbrally accurate and resolving than Vandersteen IMHO. They are however, not as full range as either Vandersteen as they are essentially flat to 32Hz with a filter cut off at 28hz - on the other hand, with a room your size, I would suggest that the bass of the Merlin's would be very accurate and satisfying. See if you can read the Merlin review in Bound for Sound. I've owned both brands and love Vandersteens, but for timbral accuracy the Merlins are at the top of my list. I suspect for orchestral music, you might perfer the Vandersteens, but for chamber and small group jazz I think the Merlins would be the clear choice. Not familiar with the Revels.

you should go to the montana audio site and check out there speakers and then find somewhere to hear them. i know they will blow away the vandis. that is the only one i can compare them to i have not heard the other speakers in your list

Blow aways the Vandies? I don't think so. I've heard the Montanas, and they are fine speakers, but for soundstaging the 1st Order Xover and phase aligned drivers of the Vandersteen create an extraordinairy deep and wide soundstage with good localization. Perhaps Montanas are worth auditioning, but don't expect them to blow away the Vandies, they won't.

Thanks for the suggestions. I've heard good things about both Merlins and Montanas, but they aren't available locally, so they didn't make the cut.