Crutchfield currently has the F36 for USD $699 each.
... and the F35 for $499Crutchfield currently has the F36 for USD $699 each.
Great deal for surround usage!... and the F35 for $499
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It was a very good demo room with plenty of space for speakers and listeners.More likely there was something wrong with the demo space.
That occurred to me too, but the Kef's that we heard also had very similar and very good directivity behaviour. We also tried listening toed-in, toed-out etc.Fair enough. The only thing I would say is that the acoustic treatment may have been detrimental to the Revels, given that they are designed with wide dispersion and to use the early reflections for summing to a good in-room response.
My 2 main sets of speakers are KEF and Revel, matched to their rooms for their very different directivity characteristics. KEFs are very even and only +-50 degrees. Revels are less even with +-65 degrees.That occurred to me too, but the Kef's that we heard also had very similar and very good directivity behaviour. We also tried listening toed-in, toed-out etc.
Which KEF model and did you buy them instead?It was a very good demo room with plenty of space for speakers and listeners.
The room was acoustically treated at the first reflection points on all the walls and the ceiling, too.
The shop staff went to considerable care to position the speakers carefully.
The partnering equipment was good, and we were given as much time as we wanted to chose and play any music we wanted; and we did.
I went in there having just read Amir's review, was very confident that I would like them, and had firmly decided beforehand that I was going to buy them.
Instead, we didn't like them even in isolation, not having listened to anything else.
Subsequently, the Revels were replaced by Kef's in the same place, same music etc, and sounded much better.
The Revels were also being sold at an irresistible price.
I used to work in a high end HiFi shop, so not my first rodeo etc etc.
Equalizer APO, I'm using three peaking filtersWhat do you use for adjust the bass?
If you're utilizing a PC, Equalizer APO allows for any sort of equalization you can imagine. You can carve the frequency response very precisely with its "graphic equalizer with variable bands filter"Ah got it thank you. I have a DSPeaker Antimode x2 but I don't think it offers that flexibility.
Do most my fellow revel 206ers smooth out the upper bass...I bring down the bump centered at 133hz and add boosts before and after 200hz, following Amir's meaaurements. I feel like it's a not-insignificant improvement.
I only realized how significant front-wall bounce can be pretty recently, I've only paid attention with two speaker setups, but I tell myself these have less front-wall bounce problems, placed as close to the wall as possible, than what I had setup before
I found some of the measurements.
Sorta interesting what your room did to the broad 1.2db bump centered at 133hzI found some of the measurements.