Again, I don't know if this helps, but I have a Fox Vanilla 130 on the front and it's butter. It has all sorts of presets, rebound, damping, compression, that you can set to your liking, and I've yet to bottom it. It's a plush fork.
Doesn't seem too heavy to me for a coil fork, and it tracks well. A riding buddy of mine tells me he's impressed with the Talas, but that's all I've heard about them. He's usually a hardcore Marzocchi guy too, so any fork that causes him to stray is probably a decent fork.