Bm7b5,
Yes I did! Letting them go now actually and in the market for either KEF R500 or Tannoy XT6F. Possibly even ELAC.
The Wharfedale Reva 4s are a great sounding speaker. They were an excellent step up from the Wharfedale Diamond 10.7s and they produced that warm gentle Wharfedale sound just as I expected in every area except one. The low end. The plinth port design just did not deliver for me. The low end was lacking rather significantly and I found myself constantly trying to make up for in with EQ. I blame it on two things. The port design and the phase plugs on the woofers.
The phase plugs I personally feel to be a design flaw on these speakers. There may be circumstances where a woofer will benefit from a phase plug, but when there’s a dedicated mid range and the woofer is only handling the lower frequencies It seems to be worthless. The air blows by the seam between the cone and the plug, thus losing air that would have been pushed out into the room and chuffing occurs at low frequencies when cone movement is at it’s highest (though not audible in most recordings). In short, they are a little light down below for me.
Up top they shine quite nicely. They reach much higher than the Diamond 10.7s and do so accurately and with a beautiful and gentle approach with their soft dome tweeter. They image quite well and have a great soundstage. They have a beautiful warm mid range (their woven fiber cones work wonderfully here) and are overall very flat. I really hate to see them go, but I must move on to bigger and better pastures.
