Revel Ultima Studio loudspeaker Follow-up #2  Follow-up #2 (from
January 2001, Vol.24 No.1)  As you can read elsewhere in this
issue's Follow-Up section, Kalman Rubinson was so impressed by
the $10,799/pair Revel Ultima Studio loudspeaker that he has
decided to purchase the review pair. When I read his
enthusiastic prose, I still had the pair of Studios that I had
measured to accompany Kal's original review in the December 2000
issue, so I set them up in my new listening room for a...listen.
Yes, that's new listening room, "new" spelled "a-n-g-s-t." As I
mentioned last September, I have relocated from Santa Fe to
Brooklyn. After 12 years in a room whose acoustic had settled
around my ears like a well-broken-in pair of Doc Marten boots, I
had to deal with a new room and its new acoustic problems.  Our
new Brooklyn house has a large basement that at one point had
been divided into many small rooms to serve as a dentist's
surgery. The old dentist's laboratory has become the Stereophile
measurements lab, and I h