@bassbuyer , yes, I did buy a pair from MD.
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@bassbuyer , I have been going through a period of mixed feelings. To begin with, I did not want to like them but I found myself impressed in spite of myself. However after putting 100+ hours on them, I hooked my B&Ws back up hoping that the B&Ws would now sound like hammered dogcrap to my ears. But they didn't. Anyway, I kept the Revels, but the thing is, I've been in an extended funk for some time now and I've put very little time in with them. Every night I go to bed and tell myself I am going to change that the next day, but so far I haven't. Anyway, here is the thread I started after they were delivered, but be forewarned that I make no claims whatsoever to be a reviewer:
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I can only tell you that I too own B&W 805M's purchased at right around the same time as you did-1994 to maybe 1998-I just remember that my two sons were still young. I will never forget buying them at Progressive Audio on High Street, on tOSU's campus. Back then, Progressive Audio had moderately priced gear downstairs in an old house converted to a store and the uber-expensive gear were in what used to be the upstairs bedrooms. But here is what I am getting at; about ten years later I returned to Progressive Audio-now long out of business-and had a conversation with the lead-salesman Robert (last name long forgotten) about how classic and timeless the 805M's continued to be and how despite having equipment in his own home similar to the high priced gear upstairs, Robert returned again and again to enjoying how great the 805M's sounded at the store. I still own those 805M's and they have not seen the light of day in ten years or so. They have been sitting in the original box. I plan to re-install them in my dedicated listening room soon and I am willing to bet that after some warm up time and loosening up of the surrounds, they will continue to give much enjoyment. You can not strictly do A-B style comparisons to determine which loudspeaker will prompt you to return to your listening room rather than watching TV or whatever else you might end up doing in your spare time. That "magic dust" that for your ears makes you want to just listen to music is elusive. The mistake that virtually all of us make is yearning for something we see that we think might make things better. I "ditched" the 805M's originally thinking I wanted floorstanders that put out more bass and put out a larger wall of sound. I have since moved on repeatedly with new speakers. I love my Devore 0/93's but do they make me want to listen to music more often than with the 805M's? No. |
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