In Reply to: Why such negative vibes on B&W's posted by bmullin on July 23, 2002 at 10:07:38:
I have to agree with Sean that maybe the posters have mainly been people who have not liked B&W's sound, and that those who love them have been silent. I can understand both the objections and the praises of the posters as I seem to have learned one thing in my search for the perfect sound...it, like everything in the world, is subjective. There are tons of great speakers out there that excel in certain fields and lack in others. A "great" speaker really depends on what qualities you are looking for out of the speaker...whether laid back or forward, heavy bottom or bright top. Your chain store Bose cubes may be the perfect sound to you if you are looking for its particular qualities...whose to say that it is big "B" Bad, in an absolute sense. Really, all you can say is that a particular speaker is pleasing to you or not; you cannot say it is a Bad speaker unless it is broken. Something else to note is that B&W for a while has been kind of a standard in hifi and with a greater influx of more disparate brands...Finish, Italian, French, etc...people are finding different sound qualities that they like and are lashing out against the standard. Although I am not a B&W fan, they still produce great speakers; I just prefer a different sound.
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- Re: Why such negative vibes on B&W's - ariaslives 11:07:21 07/23/02 (25)
- Re: Why such negative vibes on B&W's - ishmael 08:19:33 07/24/02 (0)
- Disagree - layman 13:05:01 07/23/02 (23)
- Agreed - Nightfly! 15:02:18 07/23/02 (1)
- Your right nightfly.... - tunz 03:09:46 07/25/02 (0)
- Re: Disagree - ariaslives 13:26:15 07/23/02 (0)
- Re: Disagree - JeffMO 13:19:35 07/23/02 (13)
- Re: Disagree - musicluver 14:54:44 07/23/02 (2)
- Re: Disagree - JeffMO 15:55:34 07/23/02 (1)
- Re: Disagree - musicluver 14:09:10 07/24/02 (0)
- Identity Crisis - layman 14:46:40 07/23/02 (5)
- Off-axis response - grblgrbl 06:58:22 07/24/02 (4)
- Re: Off-axis response - layman 13:58:01 07/24/02 (3)
- Re: Off-axis response - grblgrbl 09:18:45 07/25/02 (2)
- Re: Off-axis response - layman 13:02:43 07/25/02 (1)
- You are a marvelous wonder among lesser beings - grblgrbl 07:09:43 07/29/02 (0)
- The reason the off-axis response matters... - Duke 14:44:52 07/23/02 (3)
- Re: The reason the off-axis response matters... - musicluver 15:02:24 07/23/02 (2)
- Musicluver - - Duke 15:54:55 07/23/02 (1)
- Re: Musicluver - - musicluver 17:15:55 07/23/02 (0)
- How is that not subjective - grblgrbl 13:13:56 07/23/02 (5)
- Pointless - layman 14:11:16 07/23/02 (4)
- It's not an objective standard though - grblgrbl 14:25:33 07/23/02 (3)
- Re: It's not an objective standard though - fredgarvin 17:13:51 07/23/02 (1)
- Re: It's not an objective standard though - grblgrbl 05:26:38 07/24/02 (0)
- I could not disagree more - layman 14:49:36 07/23/02 (0)