B&W's certainyl are nice speakers. I don't have any experience with the B&W's (aside from briefly listening to a set of what I believe are older CDM bookshelves that my mother-in-law has in her living room), but several people have driven fairly big speakers with 1050's. Mine was used to drive Paradigm Reference Studio/60's (90dB room / 87 dB anechoic) quite comfortably (although they are "officially" rated for 15-150W, not 50-150W). Don't know if that helps you any or not.

Since you already have the 1050 at hand, you might want to ask your B&W dealer about demoing the 805's at home for a short time. I would expect a B&W dealer to be willing to allow something like that.

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