Revel Salon2s: Seeking Advice

Revel’s Ultima series speakers (Salons and Studios) are uniformly outstanding. I have owned Studios for two decades, which are very similar to the Salons but with one fewer bass driver. I use two mono 600 watt power amplifiers, and, at 85+ db levels, these Studios rarely call for more than six watts.

While I am a huge fan of Revel Ultima speakers, I, regrettably, urge not to buy the Salon IIs for one compelling reason: spare parts availability. Over the past year, I have thrown away over $17,000 of these speakers because drivers had failed and no replacements were still available. That was really painful!

christianb5s4, Was this going to be a purchase of opportunity or are you looking to upgrade the Kanta 3's? 

@steve59 I was contemplating given Upscale's closeout on them, but decided to sit tight.

Demo is a must to decide- it’s very subjective.  
Probably most would prefer the Revel’s over the Focals, but only you can decide what you like.  

A local dealer told me he started noticing all the praise Revel was getting on some web sites. He said he bought out another dealers inventory and started carrying the line and it took 6 months to sell the first pair. For the same reason kef struggles in demos. the missing bass boost around 100 hz from 'accurate' speakers takes time to adjust to.