Upgrading the Source.

One more thing Warrenh...

About me being nuts, I know it was tongue in cheek and all so I wasn't offended. But I'll tell you something. Your power conditioner, costs almost twice as much as your CD Player, and as much as your integrated amp. By your own line of thinking, that would be a wrong choice, you should have spent more money on your digital source(and amp), improving it as much as you could(maybe get an Audio Aero Capitole) before addressing the power conditioning solution.

By audiophile standards, that's nuts too. "Adiophile wisdom" says: you should have all of your components in order before addressing power conditioning.

Nevertheless, you're extremely happy with your system. So who's to say you're wrong?? Not me, that's for sure. Hell, I'm happy that you've found audio nirvana. I'm the guy that has over $7500 worth of electronics hooked up to a pair of $1500 speakers...I don't follow "Audiophile Wisdom"...I just buy what my ears like.

Again, is all a matter of preferences...

WOW! Tom, you are the first for that musical review of the Revels: "no way a musical transducer?" Man, we must have been listening to different Revels. Never met a Revel I didn't like/love. Live and learn...

Warrenh:

Add me to that list...The Revels(the M20s anyway) are technologically impressive, and have many virtues to them, but they were clinical, to my ears. Again, its all a matter of preference and not about whether or not one is absolutely better than the other.

You state that they are "technologically impressive." Would you care to elaborate? You, also, said they "have many virtures". The operative words are many and virtues. Care to elaborate? I'm just wondering where you get the "clinical" from? I'm wondering a lot from this thread. You are right about preference, not which is better. The Revels are very unforgiving, because they are that good. Great speakers, I find, are not forgiving, and will show up the inherent weaknesses in one's system. Hey, we all have different ears. MY ears, for two, like I said, haven't heard a Polk that tittilates my tympanies. No big deal. Just thoughts from a resident audiophool. Trust your ears and go with whatca love. I do. peace,warren

Warrenh:

Some things in life defie explanation...taste being one of those things. The Revels are great speakers, and are perfect for people who demand their sound. Great detail, great imaging, very revealing...

Obviously there is a lot of technology going into them. Floyd Toole, head of research at Revel is considered by many people one of the greatest researchers in speaker building. He was head of Canada's NRC, and those people have produced more technical, VALIDATED data about speakers than anybody else...Anyway Revel designs its own drivers, crossovers, etc...

After all is said and done, they don't appeal to me. I respect them and I think they are great speakers, just not my cup of tea...and I certainly don't think that all those virtues make them automatically better than something like The Amphion Argons2, the Von Schweikert VR-1, or the Polk LSi9s...nor the fact that I like those speakers more than the Revels, make them better. They are different.

I'll give you a car analogy...

Mercedes Benz, fine cars, great technology, great engineering...for whatever reason, they don't move me, and that's that. I respect them and I appreciate what they offer, I can see why people love them so much, but they are still not my cup of tea.

Having said all that, I stand by what I said, if you haven't heard the Polk LSi9s then you can't really judge them, because they are not like Polk speakers of the past...

In fact you should listen to them, without any Polk prejudice and WITH a good choice of electronics.

I'm sorry about the delayed and so general response, but work's been kicking my in the rear end all day...