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In Reply to: Why so little info on Wharfedale? posted by bystander on March 27, 2007 at 03:41:05:
I own a pair of W60Ds I bought about 30 years ago. From a design standpoint it would seem they had a lot of good features, Cast aluminium baskets with big motors on the woofers, acoustically isolated mid range, decent crossovers and sand filled backs but somehow they miss the mark. Overall their performance is lackluster at best.
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Try a tube amp, or put a 0.5 to 1 ohm resistor in series and they will open up. You are using a solid state amp, aren't you?
I tried them with Marantz 8B and a pair of 9s, A pair of Eico HF-22s, Dynaco MKIVs, MKIIIs, Mac MC30s, MC275, Hadley 601, Harvard H-3a and probably a few others I can't remember. They were just always so so. To put it in technical terms, they never "WOWED" me.
You certainly gave them every chance, I'll say that. All my experience (95%, anyway) was with the separate drivers not the boxed systems. I have to admit, the boxed wharedales didn't float my boat either.
I'm a planar guy now but after the Warfedales I bought a pair of Rectilinear IIIas and thought they blew the Warfedales away.
Even though I like them, I'll admit that they don't have the WOW factor. Maybe a super tweeter would help.
I have yet to hear a pair that sounded good so that might be one reason. I never understood how they stayed in business.
You might ask how Bozak stayed in business. Their sound had a lot of similarities.
Another good point because I always wondered that myself.
Still waiting for your background bio as to your decade plus in the industry. If not we may assume it is that of selling speakes at Circuit City and I'm sure you'd not like that reputation (unless true). I'd like to respond above but prefer doing it knwing your background so no misconceptions are made in the response.
I really don't care what anyone thinks my background is unless they are paying me to take advantage of it so make up something juicy if it makes you feel better. I always base my opinions here on what I see as fact, not who I like or what my friends like so the opinion of someone on an internet board is really irrelevant to me.
I bought a pair of pristine W-90'sBeautiful cabnet's
Even a pair of CS-88's blew them out of the water
To no avail I first drove them with a Fisher 500C, then a Scott 222C, then a Fisher 400C, followed with a Scott LC-21/Scott LK-150 running KT-88's.
SOLD E'M, the W-90's that is.
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