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In Reply to: RE: new psb imagine xb vs old celestion sl 6 series?? posted by bare on April 22, 2017 at 11:04:24:
I just listened to the PSB xb's at Crutchfield. Crutchfield has a screen with a bunch of speakers behind it that you can switch in and out but you can't take them out and move them around, so it's kind of a weird demo. In that setup it was a no-brainer, with the PSB's well below the level of resolution I recall from the Celestions. I also heard a Focal 705 - this one was out on the floor on stands -- and found it very unimpressive. The Focal 706 and PSB Imagine B were a bit better than the xb but still below the Celestion. I grew up with acoustic suspension bass and it is hard for me to get used to the bloat and rounding you get from mid-priced ported boxes. The B&W CM1 I heard at another store did sound very good, superior to the PSBs and Focals and maybe better than the Celestions, though the source material didn't have a lot of bass to test its ported woofer.
The only thing I heard a Crutchfield that I would take over an SL6 was a pair of Def Tech Towers that go for several thou, I was told. If you're reading this and you have several thou to spend I recommend listening to them, especially on rock. Maybe I'll listen to one of their cheaper models.
To be fair, Crutchfield is not a high end type of place and their demo might not have allowed the speakers to show what they could do under ideal conditions.
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- No brainer indeed! - ph5y 16:43:05 04/22/17 (0)
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