"it’s a tricky situation since I have no way of listening to either one to see what I like better."
you can buy and keep them for 30 or 60 days and then return them with full refund.
once you narrow down what would match your space, amp, sources, preferences, budget, musical genre, you would be looking at about 5 brands and 10-15 models. You can stick with B&W to compare everything to, but you’d be happy to learn and appreciate what else you can get. There are high quality bookshelves that are better value than B&W, but again it all depends on everything else and the dirty S word - synergy
