Revel salon 2 break-in period?

Mine were fully broke in when I got them being 1 year old demos. After 6 months I still move them around the room since they really reward when you get them in the sweet spot.

This is an older thread, so I may be posting to no one but I have a pair of Revel Studio 2’s with a McIntosh MC462 on the low and a Mac MC352 running the highs.I have noticed that after having them for a couple of months, the low and mid-bass frequencies seem to have improved. I’m hearing a little more “slam” that I felt like I was missing at first. I noticed the same thing on my B&W 803D’s. It seems that the highs smoothed out a bit and the bass really improved with time. It may be my imagination, but I do feel like the character of the sound changed on both the Revels and the B&W’s. When I worked in a stereo shop though, we used to experiment with things like loudness compensation. If you begin with it on, and turn it off, people would generally think that there wasn’t enough bass or high end. The opposite was true when we reversed the process, so I know that our ears will play tricks on us.
I mention this because I may be overlooking some element of me adapting to the particular character of the speakers. I certainly can’t rule that out completely, but I do still have the 803D’s and have swapped them to compare with the Revels. I still enjoy the things about them that I did when they were my main speakers so I’m not sure what that says, if anything. 

peaceunderearth,

I would agree with your points. I think it is more psychoacoustic but also feel perception is reality. 

A couple of subs to underpin the revels and tune to the room/tastes makes them about perfect.