Speaker Suggestions

Revel’s have pretty much no fault other than limited bass, but if using a sub it’s a non-issue.

Focal is solid, not the best usually but still worth their price point, and they look nice.

B&W speakers image well, and that’s the only good thing I can say about them.

Another user recommended Monitor Audio, they are solid as well, Stereophile reviewed/measured the Silver 300.

I personally would not use dipole speakers for home theater, especially as they won’t have a matching center (unless you are doing an acoustically transparent projection screen and use the same speaker as the center), but then the nature of dipole would make being put behind a screen utterly terrible.

@terrancej

Monitor Audio Silver 500 has a hair deeper bass than the F208. If you found the Revel lacking, so would the Monitor Audio, even though crossing with a sub would solve this issue.

The Revel is top class for accuracy and imaging though (and soundstage is decently wide).

@terrancej 
 
From what I’ve seen from Vandersteen on Stereophile, they sound pretty good, but imaging isn’t great and have dampened bass. However, no harm in demoing (just make sure it’s in a room size and seating distance that would be similar to yours).

@grnrbob

Just look at their off-axis measurements from Stereophile. Not saying it’s bad, just saying a competing Revel or similar would have more accurate imaging.