best for home theater? revel or aerial acoustics?

Buying speakers is a personal decision. What do you think about how they sound? What do you think about the way they look? At this level they will all sound good. If you have not heard better, they are the best regardless of the magazine reviews or Joe from Oshkosh who like Wilsons or Tom from NYC who likes Meridians (fictitious characters, btw).

Also, wrt home theater, anything better than your TV sounds good. There is no sound stage, so to speak, where you are concerned with the location of the piano or the bass. HT is a lot less discriminating.

Personally, I listened to the F50's for almost a year and then bought Aerial 8b's for $3,800. Lot's of people told me I should like the Revel Ultima's and I did. Problem was (and is) you also have to buy furniture, amplifiers, a projector, accoustical treatment, etc., and then have something left over for your wife, the family, your mortgage lender!

Ditto w/ Quicke about personal choice. You can also add in interaction w/ your current components and cables. Bring 'em in, put your favorite sounds on and listen, listen, listen. Good Luck!

I've heard all those - I would choose the Aerial stuff. Better made, better sound. The CC5 is as good as any center channel gets, from anyone, IMHO.

9s are very nice too, though 6, 7, 8s are no slouches either.

-Ed

FWIW, I owned an Aerial setup for 5 yrs: 7Bs, CC3, SR3s ran it w/Sunfire amp & Classe processor. It was great, but was overkill because of all the points raised by the others here. I recently sold it all, bought an NAD receiver & Onix Rocket $2150 5 speaker package, and freed up over $4k to upgrade my separate 2 channel music system.
I am very happy w/the lower priced HT, and more than happy with improved sound where it matters most: the music system.
Spencer

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.