I agree. People just want to spend and upgrade. Those B&Ws are fantastic speakers and it's likely you have placement and toe-in work to do, maybe room treatment. The speakers are winners.
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Honestly just speaking from experience. I have owned three pairs of N802s and a pair of N803s. I still have the one pair of N802s. To me, this was the heyday for B and W speakers. The Revel Salon 2's are, to me smoother and sweeter sounding than any of the 802s, play deep and large in a big room, and never make me cringe. I can not say that about the Persona or recent D series of Bowers and Wilkins, and I have demoed both several times. Just my opinions. |
Here’s a pair of Joseph Audio Perspective 2s near your price point (they do have some minor damage that is what brings them to your price level). I got to hear the smaller Pulsars and your 804 D3s in the same system and hands down thought the Pulsars were better all around. Amazingly bass was comparable and the Pulsars were the equal on detail but sounded more natural, musical, disappeared and imaged better, and threw a bigger and more expansive 3D soundstage. The Pulsars were just more effortlessly enjoyable and believable overall whereas the D3s called attention to themselves while showing their relative limitations. It’s not that the D3s were bad — in fact I liked them more than any previous iteration of the 804s, but the Pulsars were just flat-out better overall. No contest in my book, and obviously these Perspectives would give you even more in terms of bass impact/depth and overall dynamics than the Pulsars and the D3s. Just another option, and best of luck. |
Of course @jnovak ! But some are not so good at picking girlfriends! :) |
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