REVEL performa3 f208 or TEKTON Moab

John Dunlavy also said this,

Dunlavy: That's right. You can go one way but not the other. Flat on-axis response provides very poor correlation, in general, with what you hear. On the other hand, if you have near-perfect impulse and step responses, it follows that you must also then have from that a near-perfect frequency response on-axis. And using a first-order crossover network is the only way you can achieve accurate impulse and step responses. As soon as you go to a second-order crossover, the impulse response is hideous. 

And as Toole proved when at Harman, a flat on-axis response was absolutely critical to how well a speaker will be considered to sound.

Dunlavy was one of the best. I sold his loudspeakers as a young man in the 1990's. SC IV and V's were and still are great loudspeakers . 

I will never forget spending an evening with John Dunlavy at his shop in Colorado Springs, ca: 1994.  Gene, an 'experienced' audio salesman friend of mine from The Sound Shop took me there to see and hear the SC line and meet John.  I thought John was quite an amazing person. It is a nice memory. The speakers were great and a firend got IVs

I have the Revel F208s.  They have been modded significantly.  The have been driven by Parasound JC1 monoblocks and Canary 140 wpc monoblock tube amps.  Prior to breakin the tube amplifier did not spank them and make them sing like the parasound monoblocks. No, after breakin the Revels sound great with the tube monoblocks in triode mode - about 90 wpc.  They play very loud but I agree they are not overly dynamic headbanger speakers.

I thought long and hard about the Tekton speakers. Kinda got scared off by their allegedly cheap drivers and one of my audiophile buddies heard them and did not like them.  Nevertheless, I am still fascinated by them though have never heard them.

The F208 Revel is a fine speaker for sure that is going to be harder to drive with low power amps.

I think my old Krell FPB 400CX will power the F208's with 400 wpc in to 8 ohms, 800 into 4, 1600 into 2. I have ordered f208's. they are coming this week. On the fence between Moab and Double impact se tekton to compare