Dave, have you heard all of them? I highly doubt it. Not sure what price ranges you are talking about, but I'd love to hear your conversation with Richard Vandersteen or Alon Wolf about this, lol. Sorry, but you can't make that statement unless you have heard all of them. I promise you my Vandy Quatrro's are plenty organic adn alive like real music in my room. Plenty of speakers I've heard are outstanding and sound like live music and they are made of all different types of materials.
Totem are also nice speakers and I've enjoyed most of them at a local dealer as well as a dealer in NYC. There is no best. It's all design and implementation.