This content reviews the Quad Revela 2Os, a three-way floorstanding speaker, evaluating its performance, design, and value proposition against its stand-mount sibling and competitors in the £3,000-£5,000 price bracket.
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I've said this before, but it's worth
restating. I don't review many floor
standing speakers below £3,000. They
tend to give up too much fidelity to
equivalent price stand mounts. Above
£5,000, the pendulum swings back in
their favor. It's that middle three
to5,000 range where everything's up for
grabs. That's why I've reviewed so many
stand mount speakers over the years. My
current favorite modern-day stand mount
speakers below £3,000 are the excellent
Quadrella ones, featuring a pure ribbon
tweeter and a doped wood pulp midwuffer.
An absolute bargain for £1,800.
Giant killing isn't something that I
tend to talk about because it hardly
ever happens. When the Quadrolla ones
can compete favorably with speakers
twice their price, you could call that
giant killing. I was curious about their
big brothers. Have designers messed
things up by putting additional drivers
in a larger box or built on the strength
of the stand mount? It's time to find out.
The Quadroverta 2Os are three-way floor
standing speakers that retail in the UK
for £3,499
a pair. An all black finish is
available, but I prefer the Realwood
walnut veneer that wraps around the back
and sides.
These are no shrinking violets,
measuring 965x 350x
350x
325 mm and weighing 31.8 kg. That's 38
by 13.8 by 12.8 8 in and 70 lb. The
fitting finish is faultless all the way
from the heavily chrome spikes on wide
outrigger feet right to the top. To my
eye, the high gloss finish suits the
stature of the floor stander better than
the stand mounts. The Roller Twos have
two 165 mm 6 1/2 in woofers handling
bass frequencies specified at a minus
3dB point of 40 Hz up to 650 Hz. The
cone material named reveal is a wood
pulp infused with pararamids to add
stiffness and damping. The drivers were
developed from scratch, not just a new
cone material, but a substantial magnet
structure, all housed in a heavy diear
chassis. This is one reason why the
speakers are heavier than many competitors.
competitors.
The same materials and technologies are
deployed in the mid-range unit, which is
smaller at 150 mm or 6 in. It caters for
frequencies between 650 and 3,800 hertz.
The crossovers utilize acoustic
Butterworth filter networks.
The 60 mm 2.4 in pure ribbon tweeter is
identical to the one found in the Rella
1 stand mounts, but doesn't have to play
down as low due to the three-way
implementation of the floor standers.
Quad have used ribbon tweeters for many
years. This particular design has
evolved from the model found in the
Junior Z series. The magnet structure
and waveguide have been improved to
increase bandwidth and linearity whilst
lowering distortion.
By amping and bywiring enthusiasts may
be disappointed to find a single set of
speaker binding posts, but they are of
higher quality. Twin flared rear ports
are responsible for extending the low
frequency range. The cabinets are
internally heavily braced to reduce
resonances. They also have large radius
corners to minimize edge defraction
issues that can adversely impact on the
soundstaging and imaging abilities of
These speakers have a lot to live up to
given that I'm currently using the
Revela ones as my reference speakers
below £3,000, but the Revela twos don't disappoint.
