B@W Matrix 800 speakers

Pete. Kinda sounds like my room with your room having bigger dimensions. How long have you had your 800 s. Do u have the Krell B&W bass alignment filters ?  And mine are the all black ones. What color are yours. The wood finishes are beautiful. I bought these speakers from a guy in Texas about 2 and a half years ago. I never heard the sound of these speakers. But I did hear the 801 in the 90s and totally loved the sound of them. But for a guy in his 20s back then that was just a dream and couldn’t afford them as they were  about $5500 from a dealer in NJ. Anyway I saw the 800s in stereophile June 91. And read and saw photos of them and I was in awe. I totally fell in love with them. 

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I have had my 800s about 15 years now. Purchased them from a local B@W dealer going out of business. He had all the original crates and jumpers they came with. Since then i have up grade the jumpers to High Fidelity level 2 jumpers. That helped improve the base and imagine. They where his personal speakers. I heard them right next to the 800D first year model and liked them a lot better. They are black in color. I have never heard them with the base line filters. I am getting pretty good base with them, when i started adding High Fidelity Cable Power cords and Power conditioner distributer. I like their products a lot. My system is very simple Esoteric CO3x Preamp, Esoteric KO3x disc player and a Mark Levinson 335 amp. With Transparent Reference speaker cable MM2, Transparent interconnects Reference XL XLR MM2 all calibrated for the equipment they are attached to by Transparent. I feel the sound i getting now will compete with some of the newer high priced gear. They are keepers.

@68pete. It sounds a lot like my system. My system is pretty basic too. I have the Krell Fpb 600 with the ARC Ref 6. Rega Isis Cdp. B&W Krell baf. (2) balanced. (Bass alignment filters). StraightWire Crescendo IC balanced and StraightWire Crescendo speaker cable. No Tt. I only listen to cds. I would never part with my 800s. I will have them til I die and then leave them for my son. My whole system too. Too bad we weren’t closer. We could of got together. Mike.