Quad Revela 2

The Quad Revela 2 is a floorstanding loudspeaker of extraordinary ambition and accomplishment — the flagship of Quad's Revela series, and a design that represents the culmination of more than four years of research and development by Quad's Director of Acoustics, Peter Comeau. Built around a True Ribbon high-frequency unit of transcendent refinement, a purpose-engineered Reveal™ 6-inch midrange driver and twin 6.5-inch Reveal™ woofers mounted on rigid die-cast chassis, the Revela 2 delivers a full-range performance of genuinely breathtaking scale, authority and resolution — a floorstander that sets a new standard for what is achievable from a loudspeaker of this scale and at this price point, and that transforms every recording in a listener's collection into an experience of renewed and startling immediacy.

True Ribbon High-Frequency Unit

The True Ribbon tweeter at the heart of the Revela 2 is the product of over four years of dedicated research by Peter Comeau — a transducer of extraordinary lightness, speed and resolution whose development has taken Quad's ribbon tweeter technology to an entirely new level of musical delicacy, smoothness and hear-through transparency. The True Ribbon's diaphragm is a single corrugated conductor suspended in a powerful magnetic field — a moving mass so vanishingly low that the ribbon responds to the most demanding transient detail in the musical signal with an immediacy and accuracy that no conventional dome tweeter can approach. The result is a high-frequency presentation of exceptional openness, air and three-dimensional imaging — a top end that reveals the finest spatial and tonal detail from every recording with a naturalness and absence of grain that immediately and permanently distinguishes the Revela 2 from every conventional floorstander in its class.

Reveal™ Midrange and Bass Drivers

The Reveal™ midrange and bass drivers paired with the True Ribbon tweeter are the product of an equally rigorous development programme — drivers whose advanced fibre composition diaphragms are purpose-engineered for seamless integration with the True Ribbon's extraordinary resolution and speed. The Reveal™ diaphragm combines exceptional rigidity with outstanding self-damping properties, suppressing the cone breakup modes and coloration that afflict conventional driver materials and ensuring that voices, instruments and the complex harmonic textures of acoustic music are reproduced with purity and accuracy across the full midrange bandwidth. A newly developed custom rubber surround provides greater excursion than conventional designs, while a new high-power motor system delivers bass performance of extraordinary power, depth, speed and articulation from the twin 6.5-inch woofers — a bass presentation that is at once authoritative, deeply extended and precisely controlled, with the speed and articulation that defines musically convincing low-frequency reproduction. The rigid die-cast chassis on which each driver is mounted eliminates the flexure and resonance that afflicts stamped steel alternatives, ensuring that the motor system's considerable energy is directed entirely into moving the cone rather than exciting the chassis itself.

Phase-Compensated Acoustic Butterworth Crossover

Uniting the True Ribbon tweeter, Reveal™ midrange driver and twin Reveal™ woofers is a phase-compensated Acoustic Butterworth crossover — the product of not only Computer-Aided Design but hundreds of hours of critical listening tests using every type and flavour of music. The crossover ensures that all three drivers integrate with absolute seamlessness across both crossover frequencies, producing a coherent and phase-accurate soundstage of genuine width, depth and precision imaging — a performance that honours the full resolution of every drive unit and presents the complete spatial and tonal picture of every recording with an integrity that is the defining characteristic of the Revela 2's musical character.

Cabinet Engineering

The Revela 2's cabinet is a furniture-quality piece of craftsmanship that is as technically accomplished as it is visually commanding. Available in a polished real-wood veneer with seamless polished-paint finish or an all-black gloss paint finish, the Revela 2 is hand-finished to a standard that far exceeds anything comparable in its class — a precision-fitted baffle seamlessly joined with a polished finish for a presentation of the highest order. Internally, a purpose-engineered bracing structure is connected to the cabinet panels in a manner that dissipates unwanted vibrations and resonances with extraordinary effectiveness, maintaining structural rigidity under the most demanding musical conditions and ensuring that the cabinet contributes nothing of its own to the musical signal. The port tube is precisely positioned with the optimum diameter and flaring to eliminate longitudinal resonances entirely — allowing the low and midrange frequencies to perform with a free-flowing purity and complete absence of unintended boominess or colouration, and giving the listener the full dynamics and scale of every recording without compromise.

The Revela 2 is the natural centrepiece of a complete and uncompromising Quad system. The Quad Artera Stereo provides an outstanding match — Quad's Current Dumping amplification paired with the Revela 2's ribbon tweeter resolution for a complete system of extraordinary coherence and musical authority. Those seeking the ultimate in Quad amplification will find the Quad Artera Mono monoblocks an ideal partner — 300 watts of Current Dumping power per channel ensuring that the Revela 2's twin woofers are driven with total authority and composure. A complete digital front end of the highest quality is provided by the Quad Artera Play+, while those whose system includes vinyl will find the Quad Artera Pre an ideal preamplifier partner.

Buying from Martins Hi-Fi

Martins Hi-Fi has been in Norwich since 1968. Elizabeth Gould runs the business today, and we stock only brands we have heard properly and stand behind. The Quad Revela 2 is available to hear in our Norwich showroom — speak to Dave or Chris to arrange a full system demonstration with Quad's own amplification.

Contact us at info@martinshifi.co.uk, call 01603 627010, or WhatsApp on 07554 687137. You can read more about how we work on our Why Martins Hi-Fi page. We are at 85–91 Ber Street, Norwich, NR1 3EY.