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I had never heard of them and now a friend bought a pair and wants to drive them with a 70 WPC KT-88 tube amp I am setting op for him.I am asking for thoughts and or experience with these
Regards,Darrell
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Were they any good?
These things sound like they are something else!Maybe for a theatre setting?
Hard to vision them in a listening room setting?
ALL your answers have been helpful!
Thanks,
Darrell
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The 808 was developed with the basic goal of giving similar sound to the 801 (NOT the 801 matrix), but with much greater volume capability - specifically 120 dB continuous.Since most will concur that 70 watts won't make a pair of 801s sing, you'd better believe it won't fare well on the 808 either.
Now if he could biamp them with the tubes on the mid/tweets & say 300 wpc solid state on the woofers...
I saw an add for the new B&W's and did not read that much into it, I did not like the look of that speaker.On another note, I drive my B&W 800's with no problem with a pair of monoamps that are KT88 based, 4 KT88's per mono amp. I think if you want really loud and deeper bass, then you will need a powerful solid state amp. For the bass, that's is why they make subwoofers.
is they require power from high current amps to sound their best. One example, a friend replaced his Cary 100 wpc mono bloc tube amps with Eagle 350 wpc SS mono blocks on his 801s and the improvements were immediate and obvious. Nothing against the Cary, very good amps on many other speakers. They simply could not adequately drive the B&Ws.
They look impressive enough - the 808's have B&W's infamous APOC circuitry (automatic protection overload) which technicians who have worked at B&W for many years have admitted was a disaster in terms of engineering as well as sonics which I can confirm. However, if they sound good to you and your friend, that's what counts.
Regards,
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