If you have a room in which they can thrive and are willing to set them up properly to deliver what they are capable of, then this is a screaming good deal you will be hard pressed to match, let alone beat. Highly accurate for real music truth.
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@piebaldpython I looked at Revel's website and they show the Salon 2 still for sale in their linup. Are you saying that Revel is selling new speakers but would not supply replacement drivers? How would they honor the warranty? I would absolutely jump at the chance to buy a pair of Salon 2's for $5K. They are one of the best speakers ever made and sat in Stereophile's Class A designation for years. @bill_k has a good point about amplification. They have low sensitivity and a difficult impedance curve. They should be driven with a beefy solid state amp like Krell, Pass, Levinson, or something similar that doubles power with each halving of the impedance. |
I'd buy them and relist them for $8500 and hook them up and enjoy them until they sell. With something like mac MC 611's or a pair of ML 536 amps they are likely still worth the retail, The replacement drivers could be an issue and while tweeters rarely blow OE/ shorting the binding posts accidentally can co it and they're $1000 ea. and usually come in matched pairs, that's $2k + labor. The high cost for source and lack of support is the biggest concern. There's not many speakers in their price range that can match the level of quality they offer. stereophile did a review you can google |
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