Former Revel Salon Owners: What Did You Switch To?


I have had Revel Salons for about eight years, and am toying with the idea of retiring them in favor of something new or different. I am curious to know what others replaced their Salons with, and how happy they have been with their Salon replacements. I am especially interested in choices where the replacement speaker was roughly equivalent or even less than the price of the Salons. Did you consider it an improvement, or just a lateral move, or a step back? What did you learn about the quality of the Salon by virtue of your experiences with a new speaker?

Please share your post-Salon experiences.
jeff_arrington

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The Revel Salons were my last dynamic speakers. Before that I had several versions of the Wilson Watt/Puppies and prior to that Thiel 3.6's. Before all those loudspeaker boxes with their dissimilar drivers and inherent distortion inducing crossovers and cabinets, I had owned and thoroughly enjoyed the Crosby modified Quad ESL-63's. I have returned to Quad electrostatic loudspeakers two years ago and purchased the Quad ESL-2905. Truth be told, for years I had missed the Quad's seamless, accurate, musically involving and non-fatiguing presentation. Switching back to the Quad's after many years absence was heavenly! Simply stated - Quad ESL-2905's sound like music and the Revels sounded like "Big Hi-Fi". Good Luck with your search!