B&W 'New' 800 Series

The 802D3's I heard sounded great but I'm not sure they are $22K great?  Can't get over the looks....love the all wood larger cabinets on my older model 802D2's!  Mine also seem to have a warmer sound and are more forgiving/musical to my ear.  At $15K I thought the 802D series was a good value...at $22K not so much:(

Dear dave,

during a big concert the inyimate focus dissapears. At my friends house it was very small and direct. I love acoustic music. Like classical music with one or a few instruments. 

The physical intimate appearance is based on differrent parts.

- You need depth and width
- you need a sharp individual focus of voices and instruments
- you need a stunning black level
- you need the air around voices

This creates the same experience I had at my friends house.

In the last years I have doen many shootouts with Audioquest cables against MIT cables in differebt sets. At the end they all preferred the AQ cables. 

This is based on the more physical 3D stage with a more intimate presentation.

Enjoy....we have different tastes in what music playback should convey!  Cheers

Yesterday I had a new client who visit me. He plays with the Wilson Audio Sasha one and only plays classical music.

I will phone him tonight to aks him about the differences of his set between mine to write it down overhere. He called my set; the new reference frame. 

The reference frame are all the parts togheter. So you have an idea what the difference is between a highend set and mine.

Dear Dave,

I loved the older looks as well. I wanted to buy a set of 800D high gloss black only when the crossovers and stage depth would have been better.

The first time I saw the pictures of the new D3 series, I thought I was looking at B&W 800 copy speakers from China.

They don't look and sound like 22000 dollar speakers. When Monitor Audio would have come with speaker who look this, I would have been very irritated. 

I will try to listen to them this month again, but I have my doubts. It looks like they have become more clinical sounding speakers. This is the last thing you want!