To pricey

I was recently visiting a prominent High end shop in Denver looking a a Macintosh receiver and the sales person decided that the B&W 600 or 700 series bookshelf speakers would (SOMEHOW) equate to what I described my towers to be, in an audition of the MAC.
Needless to say He didn't make the sale. The Bottom line is though they sounded nice, a tiny lil bookshelf speaker can never equate to a quality tower speaker. It sounded like a six inch cone trying to emulate EVERYTING, all at the same time and was muddy at best.

@pennpencil   the witty posts are always short and memorable

How many takeovers, buyouts, etc. etc. has B&W been subject to since they were actually Bowers & Wilkins down in deepest Sussex?  Who owns them now?

Whatever you think of them nowadays, for the list price of any of their models it would be easy to find many superior-performing speakers made by different brands.

Thanx for the info everyone will sleep on it.

I was where you are.   Old Classe electronics, B/W 802N's.  

I bought Audionet Max Amps and Pre G2 Preamp (I had already gotten the  Vega DAC).  Wow.  It Sounded like new speakers!!!!   Really.  So when i actually got new speakers, wow again!!!  Everyone comes over and points to my speakers and says 'wow' those are amazing speakers.  It is easily 50% electronics, and people don't think that way..