Revel Salon/Studio Owners What setup do you use?

I used to have the Revel Studios and a Rowland 10 did pretty good with a Pass Lab X-1 Pre. Now I'm back in the market, probably for the Revel Salons. Can anyone express their opinion as to how much better is he Revel Salon over the Revel Studios. It's worth the price difference?

In my 20x30ft. room, I can spread the Salon 12ft. apart for a wide soundstage. Nearfield listening reduces any confused imaging (Tube Traps also help considerably). But I firmly believe that most speakers should be sub-woofed for maximum slam. Tha Kinergetics SW 800 work wonderfully in my system. Also, I've bi-amp the Salon with a ARC VT100 on top and a ML 300 on the bottom for that extra headroom. The Salon crave lots of clean power. Try the Revel B 15 or something similiar and feel the pressure!

My room is 13x13 and it opens op to the kitchen. I am running the Salons with a Pass Labs X 350. My Preamp is the Theta Casablanca. A Sony SCD-1 transport. All is connected w/ Harmonic Technology Pro Silway II and Pro 9 Biwired speaker cable. A friend of mine came over for a listening session and he thought the bass was a little thin. I proceded to put on a CD that was recorded for bass and he was just floored, the bass was deep and slamming. These speakers put out what was recorded on the track and nothing more which is why I love them so. These speakers require power and a lot of it to get them to really purr.

I have Studios with Proceed MDT, Proceeed AVP, and Pass Labs Aleph 4 (had Levinson #331, but Pass amp sounds better). I also have an LE-1 with a pair of Revel Sub-15s. I'm using NBS cables for preamp to amp and to speakers, with Tara Labs The One digital cable from MDT. I have PS Audio P600 power plant for everything except power amp, with King Cobra PCs for AVP and MDT and NBS Monitor 0 PC for amp. I also have Revel Voice and Embraces for home theater with Proceed amps. I think my system sounds like live concerts or every bit as good as any theater.

Aron, I looked at both the Salons and the Studios with some care and decided that the Salons were worth the difference to me. The Studios are terrific speakers, but still sound like speakers, not music, when challenged by sudden frequency extremes, changes in volume, etc. I haven't had that be an issue with the Salons, and its a bit embarassing to think of the things I've played just to see if it would happen. I love 'em.
As to the main thrust of the post, mine are run through a Levinson 380S and a pair of Pass Aleph 0 monoblocks. Main source is digital: Theta Data 2 Transport and Gen Va DAC. Sounds good to me.

Aron,
I started out with the Studios. They are a great speaker, but the Salons are awesome! The extra bass and slam are well worth the money. Although if paired with the B-15 subwoofers you might keep your Studios. I believe this will be my next step.
Good listening,
Steven

Besides my Studios, I also have the Voice w/ aluminum pedestal, two Embraces, and two B-15s. Driving them are a Krell 200C and a Krell KAV-250a/3. My source components include the Proceed PAV/PDSD combo preamp/decoder (which is old, and I am waiting for Proceed's long overdue upgrade/replacement), the Proceed PMDT transport (for DVDs), the Wadia 8 transport and 2000 decoder (with all upgrades), the Accuphase T-101 tuner, the Nakamichi DR-1 cassette deck, and the Sota Sapphire turntable w/ Premier FT-3 tone arm, Monster Cable Alpha Genesis 1000 cartridge and McCormick Micro Phono Drive pre-preamp.

My interconnects are mainly KimberKable Silver Streak (balanced) or StraightWire Rhapsody (balanced), my speaker cables are all Transparent Audio Music Wave Super, and my power cords Shunyata Sidewinders.

I tend to like power tweaks, so I also have a Richard Gray Substation for balanced power, several Richard Gray RGPCs, a Shunyata Hydra, and my outlets are PS Audio PowerPorts and Ultimate Outlets.

My video system is the Dwin HD-500 projector and matching Dwin Transcanner.

I truly like my system and have, for the most part, stopped "upgrading", though I will upgrade my preamp/decoder solution and will add a system to play DVD-Audio and multichannel SACD at some point.