B&W 'New' 800 Series

D3 series - Ringing test
Interesting video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tI-FSIzyFQ0

Those of you that are into vinyl know that resonance plays a big part in what we hear. Vinyl is a mechanical, resonance, vibration process.
If you have a cartridge that is high compliance (springy cantilever) and put it on a tonearm armtube that is rigid and heavily damped. The result will not be optimal. Change the cartridge to low compliance and the results should improve.

Put that same high compliance cartridge on a lighter aluminum tonearm armtube - it will sound much better. Different ways to get to the end.

You can see in this video the direction that B&W has gone in their design of the D3’s. Now is this a good or bad thing ?

I think the test of time - and Bo :^)  - will help to determine this.

Bo, my reference is Boston Symphony Hall...one of the best sounding concert venues ever!!  FYI, in real life tightly focused imaging does not exist.  That said, MIT brings scale and authority to sound reproduction which you can not get enough of in a stereo system.  

Ringing tests: we all thought hey B&W are you F. deaf. You don’t need computers to find out that it has more distortion than some other materials.

I think they made a big mistake, when you use materials who are extreemly dead it does not garantee you to get a better sound, or more natural sound.

What were the remarks of listeners ( shop owners and clients) during listening to the D3 series?

It lacks emotion, Sonus Faber had a great story about this. They wrote that a violin or cello uses it’s distortion in sound to create an emotional sound.

In the past e auditioned many speakers who used materials who almost had no distortion. They souded rather dead. 

During listening of the 802D3 with the song: ’Thank you’ from Chris Jones.  The energy of the acoustic guitar could not get free of the speaker. It sounded like a coloration of the speaker. 

The other thing we noticed was that we missed the diversity in  the middle frequency. Both the 804D 3 and 802D3 were not able to give us a rich and diverse middle frequency. 

Another remark of shop owners of the D3 series was: you need a warm sounding amp to get an invloving sound out of the D3 series.





 

In addition...pure silver anything bleaches the soul out of the music!!

Right on about speakers being to dead can sound in-emotional!