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Sold Out - Revel Salon2 New Stock w/ full warranty $12k plus shipping
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Astoneroad
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Well... it is Vegas after all. You might be able to find some amusements before and after auditioning the Salons. I'm not anxious to ship these and if I don't sell them to someone to pick up, I may just keep them forever and leave them to my audiophile niece. To tell you the truth, I spend time just looking at them with the power off, they're like two sculptures in the room. No worries. No rush. No need for the proceeds. No WAF to opine otherwise. Carpe Diem... lol.
The 208s and 206 too?
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Nope, the 208s are sold and the 206s are in my bedroom HT. Interestingly, the tinnitus is much less noticeable with 5 channels than two, so I'm keeping that in place.
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So sorry to read this, I followed your thread with joy. I hope you find some equally satisfying alternative.
Peace
I luckily don’t have tinnitus, but I wonder if something like the Bose 901 or Sonos Era 300 will reduce tinnitus from the combination of HF roll off and excessive room reflections to give you the effect of 5 channels. Maybe subtle phase shift somehow reduces the triggering of the tinnitus.
I know it is crazy to go from the Salon2 to a Bose 901 or Sonos, but you have to think of it as you having the 206 for precision sound and these as a second system which is being compared against having no system at all.
The Bose 901 is a crazy thought but hits higher SPLs and responds very well to Dirac. The Sonos Era 300’s are available with a return policy/in home trial/return policy and are far better than they have any right to be. The Sonos team has the largest anechoic chambers in the world dedicated to audio, and the Era 300 was led by former JBL Pro engineer, Doug Button who helped designed the 15” woofer in the JBL Everest DD65/66/67000 and a number of JBL Pro products
HARMAN Innovator Spotlight: Douglas Button, JBL Loudspeakers –
For our latest entry in our HARMAN Innovator Series, I had the opportunity to meet Douglas Button, Chief Engineer in the Corporate Technology Group. Doug,
pro.harman.com
The Era 300, in room:
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Thanks, your comments throughout the thread were very supportive. I've still got my little HT... I'm letting go of my main 2 channel. It's ok... it's a small house and I turn it up loud... I still love it... just recognizing my limits... lol.
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Not exactly no system at all. My HT is all Revel with a Yamaha that sounds great in a small room. More accurately I'm not chasing the 2 channel dragon that has eluded me, but I'm not going from the Salons to silence. There is no silence... that's the f--king problem... lol. Thanks for the options.I luckily don’t have tinnitus, but I wonder if something like the Bose 901 or Sonos Era 300 will reduce tinnitus from the combination of HF roll off and excessive room reflections to give you the effect of 5 channels. Maybe subtle phase shift somehow reduces the triggering of the tinnitus.
I know it is crazy to go from the Salon2 to a Bose 901 or Sonos, but you have to think of it as you having the 206 for precision sound and these as a second system which is being compared against having no system at all.
The Bose 901 is a crazy thought but hits higher SPLs and responds very well to Dirac. The Sonos Era 300’s are available with a return policy/in home trial/return policy and are far better than they have any right to be. The Sonos team has the largest anechoic chambers in the world dedicated to audio, and the Era 300 was led by former JBL Pro engineer, Doug Button who helped designed the 15” woofer in the JBL Everest DD65/66/67000 and a number of JBL Pro products
HARMAN Innovator Spotlight: Douglas Button, JBL Loudspeakers –
For our latest entry in our HARMAN Innovator Series, I had the opportunity to meet Douglas Button, Chief Engineer in the Corporate Technology Group. Doug,pro.harman.com
The Era 300, in room:
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Got it. You slayed the dragon and decided your adventure is complete and have returned to the comfortable life within the castle walls afterwards
It’s such an interesting observation that MCH audio doesn’t trigger your tinnitus the way 2 ch audio did. I imagine that must provide some insight into treatment or avoiding aggravation…
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Well alluded... lol.. but the dragon, as well as most of the windmills that have crossed my path, still stand... waiting for the next coconut wielding knight.Got it.You slayed the dragon anddecided your adventure is complete and have returned to the comfortable life within the castle walls afterwards
If I may interject. I have significant hearing loss and very loud ringing and a steady tone of about 65 db Tinnitus. It use to keep me awake at night cause it was so loud. I know this is going to sound counter intuitive and I realize that I might be fighting a loosing battle here. The only time I don’t hear my Tinnitus is when watching tv/movie or music. When I turn on Music I can refocus my brain on the music and not the tinnitus. When in bed I use a few different sets of comfortable IEMs and a Qudelix 5k. Put on some tunes and set a timer for an hour on my iPhone. Setting the volume just high enough that it masks the ringing. The music plays for the hour and the timer will turn off the music. Just a suggestion. My current favorite IEMs are FIIO FH5s Pro (https://www.fiio.com/fh5s) and the FH7s (https://www.fiio.com/fh7s) using the memory foam tips they are comfortable all night in my ears.
Just sharing how I am coping with this problem. I hope you can discover a happy solution and not have to give up your passion for Music. Good luck Sir. Selling your new Salon 2’s you just bought. The holy grail of speakers. Someone is going to get an incredible deal. If you weren’t like 2300 miles away I would come get them today.
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Well... this was a fast and furious excursion... that is now over. I just sold the speakers locally, no shipping, no Paypal, insurance or existential stress from the perils of freight. Thanks for the support... it was a fun ride... now I'll listen to the frequency in my head.
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What's missing from this pic? I'll give you a hint... they weigh 160 lbs each and are coveted by all with the hearing to appreciate them. Right... the Salons are missing from this pic... off to a good new home. I had to convince him that they didn't need to be broken in... we agreed to disagree.... lol. Enjoy them Chris!!
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You have just made me Sad and the feeling may last the entire weekend. At least you can say at one time I had the holy grail of speakers and set them free….
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Exactly. No regrets. It's like Al Pacino taking a Ferrari on a wild ride in lower Manhattan... he couldn't see... I can't hear... but we got the blood pumping... at least one more time. Carpe... F..ckin' Diem... lol.You have just made me Sad and the feeling may last the entire weekend. At least you can say at one time I had the holy grail of speakers and set them free….
Damn! I still get blown away by thinking about you getting them, and then due to the tinnitus deal deciding to let them go.
I have evolution in my system. When I got the Salons, I simply disconnected the previous speakers and shoved them back to the wall, and the Salons took there place pretty much directly in front of the decommissioned "olds". And they have sounded incredible. They've been hooked up to an AVA Vision SET 400, with 225 watts (@ 8 ohms ). Well, the Salons are rated at 6 ohms, so maybe they're "seeing" 300 watts.
I've always heard that these speakers love power, and I thought "well, they're getting a fair amount..."
However, I made a decision to give them a huge amount of power. They will be hooked up to a set of AVA M750
monoblocks, shortly. These amps do 750W@8 ohms and at 6 ohm I figure they'll be seeing 900, or more likely around
1,000 watts. I mean the stereo amp's sound is simply beautiful, but you know how it is. Ya get an idea in your head and sometimes you just can't shake it.
I'm re-tooling my listening space. Moving components around, swapping out racks, cleaning things up back there. AND,
finally removing the beloved "olds" out of the room ( can you tell I'm not married? It only took 11 months! LOL )
There was a major problem in doing this upgrade. One of the amp's shipping carton had a corner seriously crunched. I mean, it couldn't have happened by someone just dropping it from waist high it had to be dropped from quite a distance or impacted, mightily, by something. The team at AVA do a masterful job at packing and protecting their wares. The stout, quality foam they use creates a very worthy "sub-frame" and miraculously the amp appears to be undamaged. At least, by visual inspection of it's externals.
Here's to hoping it was wasn't damaged internally.
I've been hesitant, yet anxious to hook it all up. Kinda been dragging my feet today. Everything has been disconnected, cleaned, etc., I just need put the rack in it's location, place everything on the shelves, put the amps on their stands, wire it up and give it all a listen. All that stuff needed a serious dusting anyway.
If there is no damage, I imagine this could sound stunning. I'll know soon enough.
I have evolution in my system. When I got the Salons, I simply disconnected the previous speakers and shoved them back to the wall, and the Salons took there place pretty much directly in front of the decommissioned "olds". And they have sounded incredible. They've been hooked up to an AVA Vision SET 400, with 225 watts (@ 8 ohms ). Well, the Salons are rated at 6 ohms, so maybe they're "seeing" 300 watts.
I've always heard that these speakers love power, and I thought "well, they're getting a fair amount..."
However, I made a decision to give them a huge amount of power. They will be hooked up to a set of AVA M750
monoblocks, shortly. These amps do 750W@8 ohms and at 6 ohm I figure they'll be seeing 900, or more likely around
1,000 watts. I mean the stereo amp's sound is simply beautiful, but you know how it is. Ya get an idea in your head and sometimes you just can't shake it.
I'm re-tooling my listening space. Moving components around, swapping out racks, cleaning things up back there. AND,
finally removing the beloved "olds" out of the room ( can you tell I'm not married? It only took 11 months! LOL )
There was a major problem in doing this upgrade. One of the amp's shipping carton had a corner seriously crunched. I mean, it couldn't have happened by someone just dropping it from waist high it had to be dropped from quite a distance or impacted, mightily, by something. The team at AVA do a masterful job at packing and protecting their wares. The stout, quality foam they use creates a very worthy "sub-frame" and miraculously the amp appears to be undamaged. At least, by visual inspection of it's externals.
Here's to hoping it was wasn't damaged internally.
I've been hesitant, yet anxious to hook it all up. Kinda been dragging my feet today. Everything has been disconnected, cleaned, etc., I just need put the rack in it's location, place everything on the shelves, put the amps on their stands, wire it up and give it all a listen. All that stuff needed a serious dusting anyway.
If there is no damage, I imagine this could sound stunning. I'll know soon enough.
