best for home theater? revel or aerial acoustics?

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.

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!