Revel Salon 2 versus WP 8

Reprehensible ?? Please… Anyway, thank you for throwing me a bone (Magicos look good...). I feel so much better now. So, can we please move on?

Bar81,
Right on if you are referring to Robert Harley and The Absolute Sound.
I believe they are becoming irrelevant when they don't even consider measurements of value in todays climate of genuinely significant technological improvements-on all fronts in the loudspeaker field.
These armchair reviewers delighting in the discussion of a "darker" or "more syrupy" sound are reading too many coffee, wine and cigar ads, and perhaps should be reviewing the same.
Kudos to Kevin Volks, Keith Johnson and others like them contributing so much to not only significantly enhanced music reproduction but also our understanding of the technical requirements for such advances to occur.

Wow, reading up a bit (above) this is certainly not a glowing recommendation for the Rives designed rooms. Two expensively designed, almost cost no object rooms, both with bass problems? I would have suspected that paying the big bucks for a professional designer geared toward audio performance would prevent such an occurance. After these issues were found, how did the design company respond and address the issues? Any warning in advance that these issues would be present upon completion of the rooms?

Ckoffend,

I also had the same thought as you after reading the same. But I know even more people with rooms designed for acoustics w. problems. I honestly believe room size & shape is a problem. In that regard I will add to your question.

Was the room space in full control of Rives, or was a basic shape demanded that needed to be maintained?

Dgad. I asked about changing the room shape, because I was worried about shared lengths (9' ceiling and one wall is mostly 18'). Richard Bird said he wanted to maintain room volume...

I still have to send him more in-room speaker measurements. I sent the first ones back awhile ago and he acted as if it was fine and only some reflections needed to be corrected on the impulse response. Not quite what I was expecting... I'll update the thread once I get a chance to send him updated measurements with the Salon2s and see what he says.