Revel Salon2 vs Wilson Sasha


I'm interested in impressions from people who have auditioned both. Not really looking for what is 'better' (as it's all subjective anyway), but more for characteristics of each, where they are similar, where they differ, etc.
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The revel salons are some of the most coherent multi driver speakers ever made, so I think any one here who says differently must be hearing something else wrong with their systems and not the revels. coherence of the drivers is just one of the things revel worked very hard on, and have more research and development in this area than wilson for sure.
In-room Response Relative to Target Response 31Hz to 18kHz ±0.5dB remarkable flat response, very impressive. the wilson looks like a roller coaster in comparison.
this is, to again use the phrase, an extraordinarily smooth, flat response, especially when you consider that it was taken in an actual room rather than an anechoic chamber. As LG noted, the speaker offers full output down to below 20Hz. Turning to the time domain, the Salon2's step response on the tweeter axis (fig.9) indicates that all five drive-units are connected with the same positive acoustic polarity, and that each one's step smoothly hands over to that of the next lower in frequency, this correlating with the excellent frequency-domain integration of their outputs. The Revel's cumulative spectral-decay plot on the tweeter axis (fig.10) is superbly clean in the region covered by the tweeter
the Revel Ultima Salon2 offers superb measured performance. It is a pleasure to be able to measure such a well-engineered loudspeaker. JA , stereophile