Revel Salon/Studio Owners What setup do you use?


The purpose of this question is to explore what amps, preamps, digital, cables and ascessories that Revel Salon/Studio (or other Revel Speaker) owners use to get the best from their system.

I use the following Madrigal/Levinson equipment with mine, but I have been experimenting and am curious if better sound is available with different equipment.

Amp #336
Connected by Synergistics Kalidescope Active/Shield (A/S)
Preamp #380S
Connected by Synergistics Resolution Reference (A/S)
DAC #360s
Connected by Transparent Reference or Synergistic Digital Corridor Reference
Transport #39
Speakers Revel Salons
Biwired Synergisic Signature 10 Speaker cables (A/S)
PS Audio P-300 with Multiwave for front end
Separate Dedicated lines to the amp and front end
Auralex sound treatment panels placed on Reflection points
Tube traps

I have a narrow long room 19X11 that opens into a Kitchen/dining room which extends the rooms length by another 30 feet.
The sound is very good, but somewhat lacking in bass slam, and the imaging/soundstage seems congested. I tried a Krell KSA-250 and it really opened things up.
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Showing 1 response by jmeyers

Besides my Studios, I also have the Voice w/ aluminum pedestal, two Embraces, and two B-15s. Driving them are a Krell 200C and a Krell KAV-250a/3. My source components include the Proceed PAV/PDSD combo preamp/decoder (which is old, and I am waiting for Proceed's long overdue upgrade/replacement), the Proceed PMDT transport (for DVDs), the Wadia 8 transport and 2000 decoder (with all upgrades), the Accuphase T-101 tuner, the Nakamichi DR-1 cassette deck, and the Sota Sapphire turntable w/ Premier FT-3 tone arm, Monster Cable Alpha Genesis 1000 cartridge and McCormick Micro Phono Drive pre-preamp.

My interconnects are mainly KimberKable Silver Streak (balanced) or StraightWire Rhapsody (balanced), my speaker cables are all Transparent Audio Music Wave Super, and my power cords Shunyata Sidewinders.

I tend to like power tweaks, so I also have a Richard Gray Substation for balanced power, several Richard Gray RGPCs, a Shunyata Hydra, and my outlets are PS Audio PowerPorts and Ultimate Outlets.

My video system is the Dwin HD-500 projector and matching Dwin Transcanner.

I truly like my system and have, for the most part, stopped "upgrading", though I will upgrade my preamp/decoder solution and will add a system to play DVD-Audio and multichannel SACD at some point.