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Comments on new B&W 800 D3

From those who have heard them.
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georgehifi
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My friend has a pair, very nice but very hard to drive to their full potential. You need big S/S amps with good current with BJT outputs (no Mosfets), IE: amps that almost keep doubling their wattage with each halving of loads 8ohms to 4ohms to 2ohms.

He has also already pulled them apart and fixed a few small phase problems they have in the xover design, which you or I wouldn’t even notice, and B&W didn’t bother with as it added many more components. But he is a measurement freak, and wanted to fix that up, and he said they sound even better now, on or off axis.

Ooops sorry his were the 800 D2


Cheers George

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lalitk
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I don't believe 800D3 is out yet. 
joey_v
663 posts
 
No one has the 800D3 yet.  


bo1972's avatar
bo1972
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I auditioned them last weekend. The stage is about 1 metre in depth. This means it is still a 2 dimensional speaker. The demo was done with the most expensive Esoteric monos en pre amp. They are able to create a deep stage. All the tests with the D1 and D2 both had about 1 metre of stage depth. When audio has no parameters you can name everything highend. My personal opinion is that a holographic 3D stage is an essential part of highend. Without it always will miss an big part in emotion.
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bcgator
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Maybe you shouldn't have listened to them in a broom closet, bo.   And let me emphasize that I have nothing against broom closets - they're an excellent place to keep brooms and other cleaning supplies. 

My personal opinion is that speakers should create a 5D presentation - the stage should have length, width, height, it should be able to warp time so you can go back and relive good times, and it should be able to bend space such that you create a worm hole in  your living room through which you can pass back and forth to other membranes of interplanetary existence just in case other universes have better pizza or ice cream or something.   If a speaker can't transport me to far away places - literally - I won't own it.
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