Revel Salon 2

I'd buy them and relist them for $8500 and hook them up and enjoy them until they sell. With something like mac MC 611's or a pair of ML 536 amps  they are likely still worth the retail, The replacement drivers could be an issue and while tweeters rarely blow OE/ shorting the binding posts accidentally can co it and they're $1000 ea. and usually come in matched pairs, that's $2k + labor. The high cost for source and lack of support is the biggest concern. There's not many speakers in their price range that can match the level of quality they offer. stereophile did a review you can google

They are great . look at the review.they are made by jbl.you can always put a satori berillium tweeter in if they fail 300$ from madisound.i do fun mine with a 1kw amp.enjoy the music

@piebaldpython I looked at Revel's website and they show the Salon 2 still for sale in their linup. Are you saying that Revel is selling new speakers but would not supply replacement drivers? How would they honor the warranty?

I would absolutely jump at the chance to buy a pair of Salon 2's for $5K. They are one of the best speakers ever made and sat in Stereophile's Class A designation for years. @bill_k has a good point about amplification. They have low sensitivity and a difficult impedance curve. They should be driven with a beefy solid state amp like Krell, Pass, Levinson, or something similar that doubles power with each halving of the impedance.

If you have a room in which they can thrive and are willing to set them up properly to deliver what they are capable of, then this is a screaming good deal you will be hard pressed to match, let alone beat. Highly accurate for real music truth.

The other thing to keep in mind about the Salon 2s is their low sensitivity, which results in their demand for high power. Their designer recommends amps of 500 watts or more, and while of course they'll play with less they really open up and come to life with very powerful amps. Their excellent beryllium tweeter is also very revealing, so not only does the amp have to be high power but very refined or they can sound hard and edgy. If you can't pair them with a well matched amplifier there may be better choices.

With the drivers not being available for replacement pricing for speakers drop quickly. Those tweeters are the reason I didn’t buy a pair. They were offered last year at $5k CAD which is around $3,700 ish USD. Any issues at all its a major issue. I chose Krell Resolution 1’s- the ring tweeter is cost effective and the mid’s are under $400/ea if anything happens.... As long as it’s not the 8" driver which is almost $1k.

If I needed to replace that Salon 2 tweeter I would expect to pay at least $1k/ea

I would offer 6K for it just to make sure it's not sold to someone else before I get there.

That’s a screaming deal. Don’t walk, run and buy it!

But make sure to find out why it’s  priced so low. Hope it’s not a case of ‘too good to be true’

Jump on it!!! To this day, even with so many newfangled high dollar speakers coming out of the woodwork, I still very rarely hear another pair of speakers that I would trade my incredible Revel Salon 2 speakers for, especially for the money.

You could also consider $5,000 a gift for those speakers.

Their used market value is $9k-$11k