Revel Salon 2 vs Vandersteen 5a Carbon

Once you get your hands on a pair of Revel Salon 2 speakers, along with a beefy, high powered amp to drive them, you will thank the High End Audio Gods!!! The Salon 2 speakers are just "PHENOMENAL SPEAKERS." The Salon 2s are definitely one of those "End-game," "Speakers-for-life," reference caliber, world class speakers. With the Salon 2s, you just don’t have to want for anything else. From top-to-bottom, they do everything supremely well.  Over the past 25 years, I’ve owned more types and brands of speakers that you could shake a stick at. But, after purchasing the Revel Salon 2s, it was all over.

But how do you really feel……?

James633 above summarized it well. I have salon 2’s with McIntosh mc611. They are an excellent pairing. The Salon 2’s really are quite extraordinary especially considering their age. I directly compared to the Wilson Sabrina X and found the Revel to be better in terms of midrange and bass. The Revel was able to play louder and command the music. The Sabrina did have a slightly better tweeter. Overall really hard to fault the Salon 2 as it is so well rounded. I listen almost every day and there is no fatiguing.