Funny you should mention pianos. A pal gave me his speakers because the internal sub amp quit working. I heard them a lot at his house, especially on acoustic piano, largely on what sounds like a (Oscar Peterson's) Steinway and whatever Gene Harris plays. Do these speakers have
pitch, timbre, dynamics and spatiality? Yes, especially spatiality; spatiality out the ying yang! Than being the case, they still do not sound right, so there is a lot more going on than these 4 dynamics.
The powered 8 inch subs in each cabinet face toward the rear at about a 15 degree angle out, with a 6.5 inch midrange above it. This section seems to be a transmission line design. The front faces dead forward, like a regular speaker, and is not supposed to be angled. It has about a three inch mid/tweeter behind a non-removable grill, under the removable grill. A smaller tweeter faces in a way that defies belief, inward at about a 45 degree angle, but with a fat, non-.attached whizzer cone looking surround thing a quarter in or so from the tweeter surface. This squeezes and diverts the sound in a circle from the 45 or so degree angle of the speaker.
Strangely, it has a really redeeming quality: It makes a piano recording spread out as if there were a concert grand in the room. He powered it with Bryston electronics, which I also have, but I have not heard the speakers in my house. They just sit to the sides of my desk, as they have for a couple of years.
Does anyone want to guess the brand and model number?
OH YEAH, they certainly are not super clean and crisp, like my similarly sized, older B&W 803's, but the piano is HUGE! Maybe I'll put some B&W drivers in the cabinets and smear the sound all over the walls? Should I place them in front of my mirrored glass wall?
The powered 8 inch subs in each cabinet face toward the rear at about a 15 degree angle out, with a 6.5 inch midrange above it. This section seems to be a transmission line design. The front faces dead forward, like a regular speaker, and is not supposed to be angled. It has about a three inch mid/tweeter behind a non-removable grill, under the removable grill. A smaller tweeter faces in a way that defies belief, inward at about a 45 degree angle, but with a fat, non-.attached whizzer cone looking surround thing a quarter in or so from the tweeter surface. This squeezes and diverts the sound in a circle from the 45 or so degree angle of the speaker.
Strangely, it has a really redeeming quality: It makes a piano recording spread out as if there were a concert grand in the room. He powered it with Bryston electronics, which I also have, but I have not heard the speakers in my house. They just sit to the sides of my desk, as they have for a couple of years.
Does anyone want to guess the brand and model number?
OH YEAH, they certainly are not super clean and crisp, like my similarly sized, older B&W 803's, but the piano is HUGE! Maybe I'll put some B&W drivers in the cabinets and smear the sound all over the walls? Should I place them in front of my mirrored glass wall?
