The people who promote Rel tend to have a lot of nonsense audiophile baggage in my various readings and the time I experienced a Rel I was definitely not impressed. They tend to be quite expensive for the performance from what I see. It's a different design, less flexible, smaller...so maybe in a relatively small room it could do as well. At $1300 list I think they're definitely overpriced, if you got it down into a more reasonable territory with a large discount, maybe. IMO.