Revel salon 2 break-in period?

Hiendmoe:

Boy, have you received some ugly responses

I have the Ultima Studio2 & were broken in when received 
I would suspect 100 hrs would be required
I have found amps make a large difference in bass on these Revels
Mac’s  hi end is sweet but bass is soft
Bryston pounds the bass, like adding extra woofer, but high end is strident ( to me)
ML sounds good overall, but never got me excited & I never thought Revel was that good, or make me want to buy
Pass Labs really made me jump up and really listen, great bass, nice details on high end

Summary, I’m liking the Studios as the tweeter is really delicate & revealing 
Break-in is part of deal , but a couple hundred hours may not be needed( more of you breaking  in to the new sound)

100 hrs would be my guess

What amp you running ? & what sound do you think you are missing?    Bass? Etc

They are really nice speakers 

jeff

Mine were fully broke in when I got them being 1 year old demos. After 6 months I still move them around the room since they really reward when you get them in the sweet spot.

This is an older thread, so I may be posting to no one but I have a pair of Revel Studio 2’s with a McIntosh MC462 on the low and a Mac MC352 running the highs.I have noticed that after having them for a couple of months, the low and mid-bass frequencies seem to have improved. I’m hearing a little more “slam” that I felt like I was missing at first. I noticed the same thing on my B&W 803D’s. It seems that the highs smoothed out a bit and the bass really improved with time. It may be my imagination, but I do feel like the character of the sound changed on both the Revels and the B&W’s. When I worked in a stereo shop though, we used to experiment with things like loudness compensation. If you begin with it on, and turn it off, people would generally think that there wasn’t enough bass or high end. The opposite was true when we reversed the process, so I know that our ears will play tricks on us.
I mention this because I may be overlooking some element of me adapting to the particular character of the speakers. I certainly can’t rule that out completely, but I do still have the 803D’s and have swapped them to compare with the Revels. I still enjoy the things about them that I did when they were my main speakers so I’m not sure what that says, if anything. 

peaceunderearth,

I would agree with your points. I think it is more psychoacoustic but also feel perception is reality. 

A couple of subs to underpin the revels and tune to the room/tastes makes them about perfect.