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The Absolute Sound 2023 Editor's Choice Awards: Best Loudspeakers
The HARMAN Luxury Audio Group continues to reap accolades from the press. Reviews are one of the key elements in the decision-making process when consumers decide to invest in luxury entertainment products. Here’s another positive take on our efforts by none other than The Absolute Sound.
The Absolute Sound 2023 Editors’ Choice Awards tipped their hat to two of our Revel loudspeaker designs, the Performa3 F206 and the M126Be. Here is what they had to say about the floor-standing F206’s:
This three-way, bass-reflex floorstander has charisma pure and simple. With its enthusiastic musicality, dynamic energy, and imaging precision, the F206 simply commands its audience’s attention. Offering strong low-frequency dynamics, excellent upper-bass slam, lifelike midrange presence, and a treble range that is eloquent yet mercifully without the needle of tweeter localization, the F206 exceeds all expectations of performance in its price class, and well beyond.
Here’s what they had to say about the Performa M126Be:
Describing the M126Be as a hot-rodded version of the two-way Performa M106 does not give it its sonic due. Fireworks and butt-kicking dynamics? Those Revel trademarks are still in place. But there’s a new degree of silken, shimmering refinement that’s rare in this segment. Thanks to a new 1" beryllium-dome tweeter, paired with a ceramic-coated, cast-aluminum, acoustic-lens waveguide, and a 6.5" ceramic composite aluminum mid/bass, low-level resolution, timbral realism, and top-end air and speed have improved across the board. Perhaps the most impressive aspect of this excellent compact is its eerie soundstage continuity. Relatively easy to drive, the M126Be still craves good amplification—the more watts the merrier.
