I have the Revel Salon2’s and the Genelec 8351B, and I cannot say one is universally better than the other. I find the Revels better for recordings of real music (e.g. acoustic instruments and unamplified voices, including classical, jazz, etc.) due to the extremely wide dispersion that fills the whole room with a wide soundstage that surrounds you and sounds very “real” as if it were in the room. It is also more forgiving to older and low quality recordings.Is the F328Be better than Genelec 8351B?
Yet I find the Genelec sound better for amplified or synthetic style music, like rock, electronic/EDM, pop, and many other kinds of modern music, and can excel to reach higher highs than the Revels for exceptionally good recordings where the soundstage is part of the recording. Where the Revel’s style brings the performance into your room, the Genelec transports you to the performance as recorded... which is fantastic is if the recording is good enough, but less so if it’s not. If it’s not a great recording, you’ll know it.
Both are extremely good across all genres, so you can’t go wrong with either IMO. But overall the Revel’s style makes a wider range of recording qualities sound good, even if the recording itself is not that great. But the Genelecs do tend to excel more for “amplified” and “synthetic” music genres, whereas the Revels tend to excel for recordings of real instruments and voices. For example classical music sounds better and more realistic on the Revel Salon2’s than on any other speaker I’ve ever heard.
I don’t know how well this comparison applies to the F328Be though but it looks like it also has very wide dispersion so I imagine much of the Salon2’s strengths will also be true for the PerformaBe series.
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