salesperson recomends what do you think

Personally I think B& W are the most over rated speakers ever made.
Sonus Fabers are great, especially for acoustic music.

Golden Ears are good sounding, very good for large scale orchestra music but the smaller two-ways are not near as good according to my ears.

As Dtc says, IF you can go with a small-footprint floor stander, I doubt if ANY speaker under 5k will best the Siverline Preludes in a small room . I got mine in a local pickup here on A-gon for 600 bucks.

I use them in my 12x11 TV room as my TV speakers, mostly to listen to the great vocalists of the 30's and 40's on the digital cable tv musical channels.Even with just a Sony AVR, albeit their top of the line, it often brings tears to my eyes.

Gee Wolf. I feel ripped off for paying 600s mint.

How big a room would you guess Preludes would still sound good in with a fast sub like an REL?
I currently use mine in a 12x11 room without a sub which they load perfectly.I'm guessing 15x 12 might be their max without a sub.Only speakers I ever owned that I can find NO fault with.

Your are a good person Wolf, I just always feel any room sound better if its "pressurized" to use the common term, not that I know what that really means.

It like when you're listening to music taking over the room,not necessarily at loud volumes mind you, as opposed to listening to music thats just in in the room.

Well, I never heard of anyone regretting a Spendor purchase.
B%W seems never to be of one piece, tweeter here, mids there, bass somewhere else. I find them very fatiguing to listen to.

Johnny 53 is no doubt correct about Aon 3's , I just heard them once at a guy's house,he was using anti-cable SC which I loathe myself.