What are your general thoughts of B&W speakers

On another note.. i like the way one poster stated the "for the price range" that was a get way to put it.... it seems that too many times people post the differences in speakers that are not only from different manufactures but also in different categories... alt of the comparisons are not fair to either side.. like comparing a 30k mustang with a 300k ferrari... you just can't do it...

Compare speakers in the same price category, in the same room, driven by the same equipment, using the same material...

if you did not compare the speakers like that then you did not compare.

Bill

B&W speakers got me into higher end audio. I always had decent low budget stuff from the early 80's and some time in the mid 90's I bought some DM602's and they were the best bang for the buck ever. I cranked those bad boys every day for 10 years. I think the 800 series are fantastic. Lets put it this way. What's the opposite of dry? Wet? Wet to me sounds like something someone would say who's never been to a live music event in their entire lives. Ive never been to a wet concert. Understand 90% of people on this forum don't go to live shows. Music wasn't intended to be recorded.

B&W Warm?

On one audition, I remember my head flinching and turning to the side when some high vocal harmonizing sounded shrill. Rightly or wrongly, I attributed it to the speakers.

thanks for all the responses guys. I have been reading lots of speaker threads here and B&W just doesn't get mentioned alot. I guess I can understand why now. My friend has the 804 diamond towers. I think they sound good but, I haven't compared them to anything. My town is too small and doesn't have any so called hi-fi stores. Just big box stores like best buy and H.H. gregg. They don't carry any of the speakers I am interested in. I have checked out the sonus faber cremona M online. They look interesting to me. I might have to find a dealer nearby and listen to those. I wish I could take them home and try them out.