Anyone have issues with Revel Performa speakers


I recently purchased Revel PERFORMA F206 towers using an Anthem receiver and Rotel 1582 200wpc amp and after 2 weeks tweeter blew while1 not playing very loud. I went from Paradigm Monitor 11s and played them way louder without any issues. Going to a Mark Levinson 532h amp and hopefully can play loud without any clipping and the Revels hold up. Is this a known issue with Revels not taking playing loudly or possibly Rotel clipped and caused this ?? Or perhaps just a bad tweeter driver from the start ?
lnitm

Showing 1 response by contuzzi

Absolutely agree with the above poster about hearing loss.  Good advice.

As far as the Revels go, why are you buying a Mark Levinson amp?  You should absolutely not need to spend that much money to make a $3,500 pair of speakers function properly.  I would see if your dealer would let you borrow the 85f demo pair to compare.  They are outstanding speakers and will play very loud with not much power in comparison to the Revels, and more importantly sound better at low volumes.

Now what I’d really recommend in that price range is the Focal Aria 936’s, but that’s a whole ‘nother story.