Revel F328Be Floorstanding Speaker Review
Assuming you've perused our surveys of Revel's F226Be and F228Be floorstanding speakers, you might have the feeling that those two models, alongside the F328Be ($16,000/pair), are just the little, medium, and huge emphasess of the PerformaBe floorstanding arrangement. While actually right, this would be enormously distorting reality. We expect the bigger forms of comparable speakers to have more prominent unique reach and to have all the more low-recurrence augmentation, and F328Be performs appropriately. In any case, there is something else to this speaker besides simply "stronger F228Be with more bass."
Allow me to move the similitudes first thing. The F328Be has a cupboard plan like the remainder of the PerformaBe floorstanding arrangement, with a level front confuse, adjusted side dividers that meet in an adjusted point at the back, a sloped dark plinth at the base, and a bended metallic dark top board. The bureau is widely propped, with a sub-nook for the midrange driver. Likewise with the remainder of the PerformaBe floorstanding family, the F328Be is accessible in your decision of decision of four serious shine wraps up: Black, White, Walnut, and Metallic Silver.
The five-driver, three-way speaker is genuinely enormous at 50.9 inches high, 13.5 inches wide, and 17.6 inches down, and it tips the scales at powerful 112.6 pounds. Sharp perusers will see that this is just five inches taller than the F228Be, however very nearly three inches further. The unassuming stature increment was overseen by moving the bass-reflex port from the front of the bureau. The triple eight-inch woofers need altogether more air than a couple of them, so the bureau has some additional profundity and a couple of back terminating ports rather than a solitary port.
We suitably noticed the ports are suggestive of double fumes of a muscle vehicle. The actual drivers are additionally unique in relation to the eight-inch woofers in the F228Bes. The "B bend," the bend that shows the power factor connected with the driver's development in the two headings, is more evenly offset with the F328Be's woofer than the F228be's. B_Curve_F228_vs_F328.jpgAdditionally, utilizing three separate woofers keeps the voice loops cooler, lessening pressure.
While the expansion of a third woofer is the most apparent distinction, the F328Be's new tweeter is the greater story, and most will presumably track down it to have a greater effect. It's a one-inch Beryllium arch tweeter with enormous ceramic magnets like the remainder of the PerformaBe arrangement, however the closeness closes there. The tweeter in the F328Be is an all-new plan found distinctly in the F328Be right now. At the point when I got some information about the new tweeter, I was furnished with immeasurably an excessive amount of data to incorporate here, yet I'll put forth a valiant effort to sum up it. I was told with regards to an acoustically damped, vented shaft piece that brings down mechanical reverberation recurrence and expands data transmission, and an inductance tweak ring that diminishes contortion when contrasted with the earlier Beryllium tweeter.
All in all, what's the significance here? To put it plainly, the new tweeter is more unique with less bending than a similar estimated Beryllium tweeter in the remainder of the setup. This new tweeter is joined with a 6th era, fired covered, cast-aluminum Acoustic Lens waveguide designed to coordinate the tweeter's directivity with the directivity of the midrange driver. Scattering is diminished at lower frequencies and expanded at higher frequencies. The new tweeter likewise has a stage plug that helps scattering above 8kHz. Revel expresses that in contrast with the organization's profoundly acclaimed Ultima 2, the F328Be's tweeter is a lot of smoother. I was fascinated by this assertion, as the PerformaBE series comes up short on the etched bewilder of the Ultima 2 and needs to beat that plan limit.
Setting Up the F328Be
How Does the Revel F328Be Sound?
When I had the F328Bes set up in the room, I began discussing what music from my F226Be and F228Be audits I should use for consistent examination. After I began tuning in, however, that cautious pondering went right out the window. I essentially didn't have any desire to pause and wound up paying attention to every one of the tracks from those surveys and some more.
I'll begin with one of those extra tracks I paid attention to, "Strolling on the Moon" by Infected Mushroom (Tidal), an electronica track with horde audio cues, every one of which was definitively positioned in a three-layered soundstage into which the speakers totally vanished. This track — not certain assuming that I can call it a melody — has profound, strong, orchestrated bass.
Is it sensible? I have no clue; everything is super-handled and not the slightest bit takes after any kind of genuine instrument. However, I can see you it compressed my room without any indications of strain or twisting up to volumes that were well above open to listening levels. The couple of voices that were not intensely handled sounded fine, yet not being comfortable with the craftsman I have no clue assuming they were passed on precisely.
The Downside
My greatest grumbling with the F328Be stays the bureau. While it works fine and dandy, it's a similar bureau as the non-Be series speakers and falls behind the opposition in the completion of the touch focuses. I likewise saw that I could feel additional vibration from the side boards of the F328Be when playing bass-weighty music at stronger volumes than I could with the Magico A3.
The inside propping of the cupboards is intended to move the full frequencies to a limited extent where the bureau is definitely not an effective transducer, however, and I didn't see any bureau shading during my tuning in. Be that as it may, taking everything into account, less bureau vibration is better. I can't resist the opportunity to contemplate whether there would be a perceptible improvement in execution with a more inactive cupboard.
Revel F328Be Compared to the Competition
Revel's own profoundly respected Salon2 ought to most likely be viewed as the F328Be's stiffest contest. Regardless of the Salon2 being fundamentally more costly ($22,000/pair)
Website: revelspeakers.com
Price: $8,800
Revel F328Be General Specifications
Type 3-way triple 8" floorstanding loudspeaker
Low-frequency transducer Three 8" (200mm) Deep Ceramic Composite aluminum cones, with cast frames
Midrange transducer 5-1/4" (130mm) Deep Ceramic Composite aluminum cone, with cast frame
High-frequency transducer 1" (25mm) Beryllium dome, with acoustic lens waveguide
Recommended amplifier power range 50 – 300 watts
Frequency response 26Hz - 40kHz (-6dB)
Low-frequency extension 24Hz (-10dB); 26Hz (-6dB); 35Hz (-3dB)
Nominal impedance 8 ohms
Sensitivity (2.83V/1m) 91 dB
Crossover frequencies 240Hz; 2.1kHz
Enclosure type Bass-reflex via dual rear-mounted ports
Inputs Dual gold-plated binding posts with shorting straps
Available high-gloss finishes Black, White, Metallic Silver, and Walnut
Dimensions with base and grille (H x W x D) 50.9" x 13.5 " x 17.6" (1294mm x 341.3mm x 448.5mm)
Product Weight 112.6 lbs (51kg)
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