Raven Blackhawk LE... am I going to be disappointed?

Never said you or anyone cannot build a beautiful satisfying and excellent sounding system with 87dB or whatever speakers. Simply said you are making it unnecessarily hard on yourself to take that approach.

It's only "unnecessarily hard" if there's no real benefit to doing it another way. Got it.

I power washed my deck, waited a few days for it to dry sufficiently, and today I applied a coat of beautiful semi-transparent, natural cedar, oil-based stain. Approximately 36 hours from now I’m going to do some serious victory laps of my own. Meanwhile, my 86db Sonus Faber stand mounts are sounding wonderful powered by a surprisingly robust Chinese SET integrated. I had the windows open and was rocking an average of 88db’s according to my Radio Shack meter. Sure helped make the deck work a lot more pleasant.

YMMV

I always thought efficiency and sensitivity were different.  And they are!
http://www.sengpielaudio.com/calculator-efficiency.htm

That's the technical explanation for why Krissy magic works especially well inside speakers. So much energy is wasted that if you improve electrical efficiency even a tiny little bit it results in big gains releasing tremendous dynamics and incredible inner detail.

Has anyone compared the drivers on the Tektons vs. the Salks mentioned here? Above and beyond design, how do the parts compare?