mwillems,
I've had the opportunity to either own, or have on loan, almost everything JBL has made over the last 30 years, including the Everest. I keep a DX-1 crossover and cards for most models. The Everest is too big for my listening room, as are the 250tis. My daily driver is a pair of XPL-200s with a custom DX-1 network. There really isn't any speaker that I dream of owning because I've had the opportunity to use so many over the years. None of them were perfect and everything is a compromise. I guess my favorites would be the XPL200 and the B&W 801 Series II, but that choice is as much related to my listening room as it is entirely subjective. There are so many good speakers these days at various price points that there's pretty much something to meet the needs of everyone.