Item #148535

Info: Revel Ultima Salon2 Loudspeakers

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Description

Absolutely mint in piano black. One of the world's great speakers.


Stereophile


Such resolution of fine detail is rare among loudspeakers. That the Salon2 can offer such resolution along with the ability to play at high levels with full-range low frequencies, and has a neutral, uncolored midrange, and offers superbly well-defined and stable stereo imaging, and has silky-smooth top octaves courtesy its beryllium-dome tweeter, and features sonic coherence from bottom to top of the audioband, makes it both a Class A speaker in Stereophile's "Recommended Components" listing, and gave me no choice but to make it my "Editor's Choice" for Stereophile's 2008 Component of the Year. And enough of the magazine's reviewers agreed with me that the Salon2 was also voted Joint Loudspeaker of 2008.

With the Ultima Salon2, Revel's design team has taken the conventional concept of a moving-coil box loudspeaker to the limit of what is currently possible.
As Larry Greenhill wrote, "a new reference standard in floorstanding loudspeakers." Indeed!


Larry Greenhill was astonished by the speaker's combination of powerful bass extension, timbral accuracy, and superb dynamics. He raved: "The Revel Ultima Salon2 is the best-performing, most natural-sounding full-range loudspeaker I have auditioned in my listening room since I started writing for Stereophile in 1984." John Atkinson couldn't let Larry have all the fun; our editor was so swept away that he requested a second sample for a Follow-Up. Wait till you hear what he thinks.






The Absolute Sound

Robert Harley's review describes the Salon2s as "A Tour-de-Force in Contemporary Loudspeaker Design". This is the speaker that won the coveted Absolute Sound Loudspeaker of the Year Award for 2007 in the "Cost Is No Object" category and it was featured on the cover of The Absolute Sound in January 2008

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