Saloon 3 ?
theabsoluteguy -- Mon, 01/14/2008 - 12:11
It was great reading RH review on Saloon 2.
I am curious as why would Revel launch a speaker of not the latest material technology which is already available. Are they holding it back for Saloon 3 in the very near future.
I am refering to the Ti speaker cones currently supplied. Harman International owns Revel and Harman also owns the IP to the latest nanotechnology supposedly being used by Magico. See URL below.
If this is a fact, buyers may hold back their purchase of this new series and wait for the latest technolgy of nanotubes to be available where Magico enjoyes it current success.
http://www.wipo.int/pctdb/en/wo.jsp?WO=2006%2F073604&IA=WO2006%2F073604&...
I think that if you look at the release date of the original Salon (98?) and the Salon 2 (2007) you will see that Revel probably isn't going to release the Salon 3 any time soon.
I suspect part of the reason is that Revel's design approach involves a huge amount of empirical testing in their very sophisticated listener-test facility. This takes a lot of time, and mitigates against a PC-like "now we have the Intel Core Dodecahedral 9GHz processor" approach.
Not that new materials are bad, anything but. Still, a speaker is more than new drivers slapped into a box.
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