No Tatanya you are missing the point entirely.
Over the holiday weekend I visited a dealer in another state that has a major on line presence and I had heard they did a lot of business so I had to check out their store.
They had two sound rooms. with one being an open area with a shelf which has some monitors on it and some not too expensive amp.
Their main sound room was a crammed mess, with no room to properly demonstrate expensive speakers, the setup of electronics and sources wasn’t too good either even though they has some very good brands of gear on display, there was no forethought into what they would connect to drive the speakers.
I heard the Paradigm Personas 3F and 5F in this room and both speakers sounded good but not amazing in any way, while in our shop, the speakers sound outstanding.
We demo with only one pair of speakers on deck, use $3k speaker cables, use all high end power cables, usb, and interconnects, run all gear on power conditioning and have some light room tuning this is in our medium sound room, in our Reference room we are using state of the art gear, cabling in a room 26 by 20.
Unless you take out all the variables in demoing it is hard to know what is doing what, so your choice of B&W over KEF might have been as much to do as what you heard both speakers on.
As with anything else personal taste comes down to it.
Dave and TroyAudio Doctor NJ
Over the holiday weekend I visited a dealer in another state that has a major on line presence and I had heard they did a lot of business so I had to check out their store.
They had two sound rooms. with one being an open area with a shelf which has some monitors on it and some not too expensive amp.
Their main sound room was a crammed mess, with no room to properly demonstrate expensive speakers, the setup of electronics and sources wasn’t too good either even though they has some very good brands of gear on display, there was no forethought into what they would connect to drive the speakers.
I heard the Paradigm Personas 3F and 5F in this room and both speakers sounded good but not amazing in any way, while in our shop, the speakers sound outstanding.
We demo with only one pair of speakers on deck, use $3k speaker cables, use all high end power cables, usb, and interconnects, run all gear on power conditioning and have some light room tuning this is in our medium sound room, in our Reference room we are using state of the art gear, cabling in a room 26 by 20.
Unless you take out all the variables in demoing it is hard to know what is doing what, so your choice of B&W over KEF might have been as much to do as what you heard both speakers on.
As with anything else personal taste comes down to it.
Dave and TroyAudio Doctor NJ