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It’s about time they update them!I just checked, and after keeping the list price on the Salon2s the same since 2008 at just under $22,000/pair, Music Direct is listing them for $24,198. Still a good value, IMO, but after a stable price for so incredibly long it seems like the end of an era.
Revel - Salon2 Tower Speaker (Each)
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The big disappointment is that few have taken this time as an opportunity to launch newer and better products at much higher prices. DCA got it right this year with the Stealth. Topping has done some really cool stuff. But many firms, especially in speakers, disappoint.It’s about time they update them!
It’s about time they update them!
Revel was created during the final years of Sidney Harman’s time as CEO. Harman was passionate about home audio and loudspeakers. Looking at the Harman leadership team, from the Chairman of the Board on down, it is not clear that anyone in a senior leadership position is as knowledgeable or passionate about home audio as Harman was. Because of that, and the focus of Harman shifting to automotive systems and “personal” audio, I am doubtful an Ultima 3 version of the Salon is in the works.I was thinking about this yesterday.
I don't really see what they can do to really update them.
Laws of acoustics didn't change. It still needs large roundovers so front baffle is the same. They could implement a newer waveguide and transducers with lower distortion and better power handling perhaps - but the audibility of it would be reserved for those who really crank up their systems a lot for a long periods of time (to whom i'd recommend buying JBL M2 in the first place).
They could make an active version of it but the price would skyrocket and i'm not sure anyone would buy it. This is a passive system with very little flaws and most of it is inaudible.
Harman Intl took over Becker Automotive 10 years before Sidney Harman retired and also before Revel existed, and going by the records from the time it was a public company automotive was already one of the main income sources at that time. They probably make more from Lincolns than from Salons so hard to blame them for shifting focus when they have to please their Korean overlords.Revel was created during the final years of Sidney Harman’s time as CEO. Harman was passionate about home audio and loudspeakers. Looking at the Harman leadership team, from the Chairman of the Board on down, it is not clear that anyone in a senior leadership position is as knowledgeable or passionate about home audio as Harman was. Because of that, and the focus of Harman shifting to automotive systems and “personal” audio, I am doubtful an Ultima 3 version of the Salon is in the works.
I was thinking about this yesterday.
I don't really see what they can do to really update them.
Laws of acoustics didn't change. It still needs large roundovers so front baffle is the same. They could implement a newer waveguide and transducers with lower distortion and better power handling perhaps - but the audibility of it would be reserved for those who really crank up their systems a lot for a long periods of time (to whom i'd recommend buying JBL M2 in the first place).
They could make an active version of it but the price would skyrocket and i'm not sure anyone would buy it. This is a passive system with very little flaws and most of it is inaudible.
It was just awful.I remember when interest rates hit something like 20% during Carter presidency and I thought were lucky to get a mortgage at 12% for our first home!
So do I. My first purchase in 1980 was a three year balloon contract with 10%. Took risk could finance mortgage within 3 years. It worked out but we can remember the pain of the inflation squeeze by Paul Volker. He did the right move, but my oh my was he hated and labeled the Old Grinch.I remember when interest rates hit something like 20% during Carter presidency and I thought were lucky to get a mortgage at 12% for our first home!
I have to say that when I visit China now and look around me, and when I look at the quality of research in Chinese universities, technological capability etc I ask myself which country is undeveloped. And it isn't China.
When the average minimum monthy wage is around $300, from a labour cost point of view, it is the third world.