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Focal Kanta No2 vs. Revel F228Be: Which Speaker is BEST for You
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 เม.ย. 2024
- Upscale Audio's big, bold, dynamic duo is back! This time, Grover Neville and Joel Bennett are speaking of speakers, comparing two brands that feature beryllium tweeters, but very different mid/bass drivers. The Revel F228Be uses extremely high-tech ceramic composite aluminum cones, and the Focal Kanta No2 uses the French company's famed flax drivers. Find out which ones work for you!
Revel F228Be Floorstanding Loudspeaker: upscaleaudio.c...
Focal Kanta No2 Floorstanding Loudspeaker: upscaleaudio.c...
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Enjoyed the review. I have no experience of the Revel but I've had the Kanta 2s for about three years. Joel's comment about transparency is bang on. I especially love the detail and clarity you get in music made by smaller forces - jazz trios, string quartets and the like.
The chemistry between the 2 of you is wonderful. Keep up the videos.
Thank you! Will do!
You rock hard, Josh. Thanks you.
@@joel4231back at ya!
Great video, direct comparisons are super valuable.
Thanks for this review!! I am expecting my Kanta 2's to be delivered in 3 days. I Will be driving them with my trusted pma-1500. And as Thomas and Stereo said in one of his video's: speakers at this level all sound good, they just have different sound characters.
Love these comparison videos...just terrific
Glad you like them! We think you are terrific!
Yes! Another comparison video 😁 ❤
More to come!
Interesting how we all have unique tastes in a way, but measurements would help explain those differences.
Great comparison of a couple of serious and similar speakers. I'm interested! I would have liked a more detailed analysis and understanding of why you disagreed.
Noted! This is a new style for us so your feedback is super helpful!
@@upscaleaudio I am putting words in Mr. Neville's mouth, but I believe that his most favorite flavor is ruler-flat response with dead solid images for a speaker (the Mighty Revels) driven with a very neutral, transparent amplifier topping. . I respect this flavor, he is far from alone, and I could live quite happily with the Revels mated with the NAD. My "desert-island flavor" leans toward the Focal/ Musical Fidelity (Pure Class A, goddang it!) A1 duo because the the open and airy highs and less-solid ( but more nimble) images of the Focal get fleshed out, most lovingly, by the rich and marbled flavor of the Class A Amplifier.
The richness of the Musical Fidelity made for a poorer match with the more dense and solid Revels, which Grover and I agree, is made more lively and honest by the NAD. It's late and I hope this makes sense as Saent-Saens Danse M\acabre is lulling me creepily to sleep.
Funny great review! Thanks for sharing guys.
Our pleasure! We are excited to make more videos like this!
Les focal kanta son sublime
How do these compare to the Monitor Audio Platinum 300 (5g) or the Monitor Audio Gold 300 (5g)?
Which finish is the Kanta 2? Matte Black or Dark Grey?
But what about da bass, bout da bass, no treble?? The Revel's got bigger woofers, and wonder if they really pay off in the Lows. Focals sound wonderful, but small 6.5" woofers have never satisfied me.
Focal has an airiness and smooth clarity that is hard to find in many others. Ya want more bass, buy a sub. For my money, Focal Aria 948s do everything without any additional components.
Without a sub… that could be an issue. If you are not aware of what modern subs can do….. you need to be. That Revel in the video would benefit profoundly from an “S”series or, even a “t” series- at 10 k and above, you are on the cusp.
I have owned the 228be and focals (not this model).
The revel lack bass extension. Without subs they are kind of meh. But I high passed them this JL subs at 60hz and they were amazing that way. Slammed and super smooth at the same time.
The focals are “tuned” a little more to tastes IMO (100hz peak and 1-2db brighter at 10k-ish. The Revel will play much much louder…. Silly loud.
I now own the JBL 4367 which are on another level in all aspects other than soundstage width.
@@JamesWilliams-gf8gm looking at those JBLs, for $8k they should be on another level in some aspects. Glad you like them, I am sure they sound awesome based on my limited exposure to JBL since the 80s.
Will revel investment justified with Yamaha RN series ..?
Good question. I recently purchased a Yamaha R-N2000A network receiver, and it seems to be on the low end of the power requirements for these type of speakers (90 W into 8 ohms and 145 W into 4 ohms), but maybe biwiring would increased its output.
@@fredbloggs6080 thanks, which speaker are you using for lively performance?
@@VinayKumar-sg1bg I purchased a pair of Klipsch RP8000F II Tower speakers to go with the Yamaha, and while they sounded very clean and detailed, I felt they didn't have enough midrange presence or fullness for vocals, and lacked bass response, although they seemed to get better after few weeks--either they were breaking in or I got used to them--but still not what I wanted, so I'm returning them. I'm looking into the Klipsch Cornwall IV, which should have good presence in the midrange with the midrange horn, and I did audition them a few days ago but it was a very large room with a high ceiling, but I liked them better than the Forte IV, but I don't know how that will compare to these two speakers reviewed here. And which would be best for female vocals, and male vocals also. I'm less concerned with details of instruments or sound staging although that would be nice also. In the 1980s I had a pair of speakers that were made as demos by a company that built PA systems and supplied components to other companies. They had a 12 inch woofer, a horizontal horn midrange like Klipsch and JBL, and two tweeters above that with a 1 to 7 vertical slider adjustment for each one, which I didn't really mess with. They had tremendous naturalness and presence for vocals and also horns like trumpet music. About 20 some years ago was listening to speakers in stores and the only ones that gave me a tone I liked, although I hadn't heard Revel or Focal, or Aereal, or Spender or Harbeth, and still haven't, were they Monitor Audio Gold Reference, from the bookshelf to the three-way floor stander. They have gone through several more generations now and there's also the Platinum which I haven't heard, so I don't know if they have the same sort of warm sound anymore. But at that time I liked them better than other brands I listened to, including the Monitor Audio Bronze and Silver, Paradigm, B&W, Martin Logan, Veritas, and some others.
Team revel for neutrality! Also digging the white speakers 🔊
You had some clarity in the beginning descriptions and at the end but the euphemisms and analogies, including cooking analogies, in the middle are really meaningless.
Why not just measure this and show it on a graph. What on Earth makes you think that anyone else will hear either of these speakers in the same purple prosed way you describe it? Just pure b.s.
Focal any day!
Yup...
@@FelixtheMetalcat and @ivanfilatov7913 I am with you, but the Revels are tasty, too, At last count, Baskin-Robbins has created over 1400 flavors since the first one opened in 1945.