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In Reply to: Why such negative vibes on B&W's posted by bmullin on July 23, 2002 at 10:07:38:
everyone is entitled to an opinion.I have found B&W to excel at almost every price point and would most likely make my final 5 in speaker evaluation for a purchase. They may not always be my first choice but it depends on the price point.
It also depends on what we're comparing them too and the type of music. Entry level B&Ws strive to offer a big sound for the money making them all rounders...they will do most things well but perhaps nothing exceptionally well. OK, you may find the Mission entry level will sound smotther for classical music but throw on a dance track and the life gets sucked out of them do to smaller dynamic ability.
all speakers are a compromise...for a big name speakr manufacturer they are probably the best or right up there...especially considering the competition is from Paradigm, JM Labs, Energy, Dynaudio, Totem etc. All of those have issues that in most cases annoy me more than the compromises made by B&W.
I have the DM 302s which I felt were better than the dozen or so loudspeakers at the price. That said the Nautilus 805 seems overpriced to me when you can buy the Reference 3a MM De Capo for the same money. The 805 is a very good speaker but you can do better for the dollar...The competition gets very stiff in the 3kCDN range.
The two speakers that I feel owned the market at the price when I was shopping was the 302 and the CDM 1SE. At the price point and for standmount speakers I heard zippo that could touch them. Now both have upgraded but others have been coming along...the margin is getting tighter. Wharfedale and Mission etc has some competition for the 303...and both are cheaper than the 303. The 1NT has some Danes to worry about etc.
Still to say they are a bad speaker company like a BOSE is simply assinine and people stating that are no hopers.
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