best for home theater? revel or aerial acoustics?

I have heard the entire Revel line and find it to be exceptional. I have heard some aerials and they are also fine speakers. Personally I prefer the Revels I have both the entire ultima Studio voice ect. line and performa m20s ect. for two different systems. I think these are excellent speakers top to bottom and based on budget would reccomend them. As far as build quality there is no better built speaker than Revel. These things are built like tanks. Aerials are also built well. I invite anyone to do an a/b and tell why specificly some speaker is built better than Revel. As far as personal preference someone might prefer another speaker over these but not because of quality.

I like the Aerials better than the Revels. I have the 9's and they are awesome. Revels are made as good as it gets but i like the sound of the Aerials better. You must hear both of them to deside for yourself.

Worldcat: Your response shouldnt even be allowed in a Revel vs. Aerial debate. And you know it! =P

Get yourself the new Deftecs BP7000sc series if you want HT. These are meant for HT and have few peers if your planning to spend that kind of money.I beg to differ on Revels being built like tanks... you must mean the F50 on up. Below that they are nothing special. The BP7000sc series has a freq response from 11 Hz - 30 khz. Built in 1800 watt class D amplifiers in each speaker. A pair of these has more bass output and impact than 7 super cubes put together! For HT they are hard to beat..regardless of how much more you spend.

Use the money you saved.. on your two channel system!

Good Luck!

i have had the Revel F30's, C30, and S30's in my HT room for 3 years (i have a separate 2-channel room with Kharma Exquisites). i have taken the F30's into my 2-channel room and listened to them on world-class amps (Tenor 300 watt hybrids among many others). i have spent time listening to the F50's also.

for the last 4 years our local audio club has used the Aerial 7B's as our reference speakers......so i have heard those on many different amps on many occasions.

both Revel and Aerial are well made and pretty capable. but there are clear differences. the Aerials are much more forgiving, much warmer, and not as fast or detailed as the Revels. one reason our club choose the Aerials was to avoid any edgyness as that was a prioity at the time for us. i would add that when we try to do cable comparisons or source gear comparisons on the Aerials all the differences are minimized due to the politeness of the Aerials......whereas my Revels tell me exactly what is going on immediately.....a good thing?.....a matter of taste possibly.

personally, i prefer the Revels for their greater excitment, dynamics and less veiled approach. my opinion is that the F50 is like the F30, but just more transparent and refined. the better, more refined your gear is....the more you will appreciate the Revel approach IMHO.

good luck.