The Revel Performa Series represents the culmination of Revel’s tremendous acoustical research and technological resources. Revel’s world-class team of engineers, designers, and acoustical researchers was challenged to create premium loudspeakers that combine superior audio performance with handsome aesthetics. The resulting Performa Series loudspeakers feature proprietary drivers housed in beautiful cabinetry that attains stunning sonic performance and placement flexibility while complementing the décor in most homes.

The Performa Series offers truly superior sound quality and incomparable technical pedigree, thanks in part to Revel’s sophisticated laboratory listening technique that — for the first time — provides an accurate correlation between loudspeaker measurements and sonic performance. Though laboratory measurements are critical, human hearing is the ultimate evaluation tool. Revel’s Multichannel Listening Lab (MLL) represents the industry’s most sophisticated loudspeaker listening facility, allowing loudspeakers to be compared as single speakers, stereo pairs, or multiple speaker groups. Revel’s tests are based on extensive real world listening in more than five different environments that simulate a wide range of residential settings and room sizes. The MLL facility features a remarkable, exclusive computer-controlled speaker switching stage that eliminates the problems associated with speaker placement and aural memory variables. Loudspeakers are placed on computer-controlled, movable platforms that can quickly be arranged during testing. As a result, the speaker repositioning process takes only a few seconds, allowing listeners to quickly and accurately compare speakers to each other from the same room position and with minimal time in-between models. All tests are conducted “double-blind.” Once the loudspeakers are installed on the MLL platforms, an acoustically transparent but visually opaque veil obscures loudspeaker identities from the listening panelists to prevent human bias from tainting the results. Even the computer operator
is not aware of the loudspeaker identities, as the computer randomly determines the listening order prior to the test.