Rmaf 2017

[Soundmig]

Originally Posted by aqman

Anyone hear the new Revel performa3 with the beryllium tweeter?

They had a prototype of the F228 (with Be tweeter) - the sound was fantastic. Kevin Voecks himself was doing the demo. If the production models sound as good as the prototypes did - they have a seriously excellent product at the $10K price point.

[Soundmig]

Aurum Cantus. This was the $5000 entry level room where everything total was $5000. The speakers were $1800/pair with a 60 day in home trial. Go buy a pair. NOW. This was my best budget sound at the show. Hands down. You would not believe how nice these speakers sounded. Just beautiful. Smaller presentation obviously than the bigger systems but just as enjoyable.

Right on ... these sounded amazing for the $$$. I'm considering getting a pair for my second home over on the West side of the State.

[PHC1]

Originally Posted by Soundmig

Aurum Cantus. This was the $5000 entry level room where everything total was $5000. The speakers were $1800/pair with a 60 day in home trial. Go buy a pair. NOW. This was my best budget sound at the show. Hands down. You would not believe how nice these speakers sounded. Just beautiful. Smaller presentation obviously than the bigger systems but just as enjoyable.

Right on ... these sounded amazing for the $$$. I'm considering getting a pair for my second home over on the West side of the State.

What is the source for purchasing?

[Soundmig]

Originally Posted by PHC1

What is the source for purchasing?

These are available on the web through a company called Audiophile Direct.

[Soundmig]

PHC1 - they are on the web through Audiophile Direct.

[Soundmig]

Originally Posted by PHC1

Did anyone happen to see if Dynaudio Special 40 Monitors were there?

PHC1 - The Dynaudio's were there (I believe) and demo'd by Denver area dealer Crescendo. Sounded great to me :-)

[PHC1]

Thank you

[Soundmig]

Originally Posted by PHC1

Thank you

FYI - a good amount of the sound at the show this year (about 70%) was not very good (overly bright and strident). The one's that you asked about happened to be excellent sounding displays.

[tdimler]

Originally Posted by Soundmig

They had a prototype of the F228 (with Be tweeter) - the sound was fantastic. Kevin Voecks himself was doing the demo. If the production models sound as good as the prototypes did - they have a seriously excellent product at the $10K price point.

I was under the impression from Kevin that these were pretty much the production version. I thought they sounded absolutely great given the tiny room they were in. Am afraid the white drivers will hurt their commercial success a bit though...

[Soundmig]

Originally Posted by tdimler

I was under the impression from Kevin that these were pretty much the production version. I thought they sounded absolutely great given the tiny room they were in. Am afraid the white drivers will hurt their commercial success a bit though...

The white drivers are a bit annoying looking, but they sounded great. Kevin did say that these were "pretty much" the version that will be produced, but they were still prototypes - not production versions. There "shouldn't" be any difference given Revel's QA/QC, but ... they were prototypes.