If you like Revel F208, you would love ....

I've been listening in the $ 10k range to replace my salons that I bought after hearing the f208. Room size. I went to axpona this weekend and in the hotel rooms I found smaller bookshelf speakers sounding better than big $50k's. for an average size room Kanta2, raidho 1.2 blows everything else away for the size, neat sounded great, Alta. for a bigger room dynaudio contour 60, Vienna acoustics "the music" I would already have if the used pair wasn't 1500 miles away. salon 2 in a large room, studio in an average room. Not all speakers excel at the same thing and you know at the show they're going to play what shows them off. I never cared for B&W sound but owned kef r105/3 for 25 years, go figure. My salon's sound better than the f208 in my system, but very close and the salon2 is another league if you have the room and gear upstream to bring it out, in fact I may sell my salon2's in a year and put together a quality stand mount system.

Threads like this make me feel impoverished. But I like them!
I've heard the Revels and the Pearls. Love em both.

the new revel f228be

Thanks @murphythecat 

Have you tried the new f228be side by side with the f208?

@tutetibiimperes Good to hear your impression regarding X2 and PAP Horn1. I used to own a PAP Voxativ and then upgraded to Horn1. It's a crazy good speaker. So musical and sings with any kind of amps.