REVEL Salon2s - What Amp is needed? Subs needed?

Ahh... but Koestner, you can have your cake and eat it too! At least if your're willing to use two stereo amps and your speaker supports bi-amping. The Salon 2s do. Here's what I do. Buy a Y-cable for each pre-amp channel to split the signal. Run one output from each channel directly into one of the amp channels, and use those amplifiers (which are running a full-range signal) into the mid-tweeter section of the speakers. Run the other side of each Y-cable into the subwoofer(s), and run the filtered (high-pass) output into the other amp channels, using those to drive the main speaker's woofer sections. This is best done by vertically bi-amping each speaker with an identical stereo amp. The OP has monoblocks, but this the best way to use subwoofers with the Salon 2s.

No subs will be needed unless your room is huge....

I dunno, James, the sub sure did improve my Salon 2 set up. I can't imagine a music system without a sub now that I have one.

I love the bass on the Salons. When I had them in a 16' x 23' room I never used a sub. The bass was perfect for my tastes. I used a Bryston 7B-SST.

I did audition the Salons and I agree that the BASS is terrific and tight.