Persona 3f vs B&W 802D2s

@shadorne

Did you advise folks at world famous Abbey Road studio about the colored house sound 😏

OP, 

+1, 802D2.  

@lalitk

Here is the Stereophile measurements. See if you can spot the giant gaping mid range cavernous hole in the off axis response from 1 to 4KHz? Notice the peak at 4 KHz where the tweeter kicks in? Notice the 7dB resonant one note boosted bass response (looks like Mt St Helens before the eruption). The mid range is far to big to be driven up to 4KHz - the driver is already beaming at 1KHz. This is awful speaker design or brilliant speaker design. Brilliant perhaps because it sells in a demo as this speaker permanently plays as though the bass and treble tone control were boosted on the preamp - so it wins in a shop floor demo as it always sounds more "hi-fi ish" to unwitting listeners looking to compare before buying speakers.

https://www.stereophile.com/content/bw-802d-loudspeaker-measurements

There is BBC dip and there is mid range scoop and then there is B&W that take things to whole other level.

If Abbey Road uses these speakers then they must be endorsed or else they just like permanently big bass, recessed mids and boosted treble (although you can achieve that with neutral speakers with your tone controls).

@shadorne 

Please share measurements on 802D2.  The article you’re referencing is for 802D which is an older model. 

Thanks!

@lalitk 

I havent seen measurements but by all accounts the changes were mostly cosmetic (silver trim and magnets for the grill).

Of course if a new version of the same speaker model sounded completely different then that would mean that B&W cant even design consistent products.