Borresen X3 at Axpona
I listened to these speakers at Axpona and thought they were amazing for the price..Very open,forward midrange. Any opinions out there on these? We listened to Jonny Cash and his voice was incredible.l would highly consider buying a pair of these for 11K
Myself being a modded I looked at the Xover it is average at best judt by changing the 2 - $1 resistors with Path audio resistors and the 2 capacitors with possibly VH Audio Odam you are speaking at bare minimum 10%+ increase in fidelity across the board. I may do this , I just wish the Zbass would have gone down to 30 hz 35 hz is ok but considering their depth a bit bigger bass driver would have checked all the boxes. |
@ozzy You’ll be surprised given both Borresen’s and Scansonic’s cabinet innovations. The smaller Scansonic MB-2.5B can fill a medium to large room with no sub, and it only has two 4.5” woofers. My Borresen 02, with similar drivers, do the same but of course with much improved speed, control and definition. Of course room placement is key to getting the most out of them. |
One of the things that is common in speaker design, or so it would appear, is that designers seem to like adding a few small diameter woofers, versus a few larger diameter drivers. Yet, it is a pretty well known fact that the ability to push air has a major factor on low end slam. Is it solely the cost of the larger diameter driver that makes the design decision here, because in the Borresen's this would seem to be not a factor. The argument that a small driver is quicker acting than a large driver is apropos, BUT all else being equal, the large woofer driver will always push more air. |
