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Re: Tubes with B&W speakers?

Thanks for info. At least I know you're not some guying trying to plot the speaker's frequency response using a Radio Shack sound meter in his living room.

BTW, were the speakers broken in? What about the amp? I own Nautilus 802's and 805's and have heard some of the CDM speakers. I haven't detected the anomaly you've described in *any* of those speakers, which is why I am suspicious about your findings. I've detected high-frequency overemphasis in DM series speakers, but not with CDM series and higher.

For the record, I'm not saying that the CDM speakers cannot be perceived as bright because there are certainly a good number of people that "think" they are.

One published measurement from Audio magazine shows the N802 to be near the average level at 10khz. (I put blind faith in those measurements because Audio is a "respected" magazine.) The CDM series use the same tweeters as the N802, albeit with a lessor crossover, so the 4-5db deviation you claim does not seem right.

I'm sure there are other published results for the CDM speakers, but I don't have them readily available.

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