B&W 'New' 800 Series

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!

Dear Dave, a friend of mine had a small concert room in his house with a Steinway wing. He gave small classical concerts for about 65 people. What amazed me was the intimate focus of a voice or an instrument. 

I thought this is what I want in my system. These days intimate focus has become an important part of my personal sound.

I learned many people who owned MIT cables that voices and instruments are in real very direct and small in proportion. Beside this I want to make clear what this does to your emotion. That is why I have done a lot of research in creating a better blacklevel as well.

Friday I had clients who visited me, they had to travel 3 hours tot come to me. He is fan on Phil Collins ( he will start soon writting again becaue his children wants to see him sing) and I played the song 'I don't care anymore' He had tears in his eyes. It is not only the energy, but the blacklevel and fysical apperance what makes it so impressive. This is what intimate sound does with our emotion.