Tannoy or JBL

I like Shakeydeal's idea.

if you listen to full scale classical the JBL is better...if you like chamber or small jazz the Tannoy is nice....I would buy the JBL and get some McIntosh amps for it...

JBL. And don't listen to the naysayers. The JBLs respond well to high power. They can handle the power. The Everests max rating is 500 W. Harman uses high power amps in their demos. This is especially if you wanna really give those woofers a workout. It's more about current than watts or voltage, really. I think ideally, you might want to put a lower powered Class A amp on the mid and hf horns and a high powered Class A/B amp on the woofers. I'm looking into this myself for my JBL S4700s.

from Home Theater Review:

The DD66000 has a frequency response of 45Hz - 50kHz (32Hz low-frequency response at -10dB)

worth considering imo

I do have the Tannoy Kensingtons..but with the above choices and the amp, i would jump at the JBLs