This is my first time posting on this forum, so hello to everyone.
In the past year or so, my interest in audio has been revived by my girlfriend's father who is just about as into it as anyone I've ever seen. Right now, he's into Aerial Acoustic speakers and has that all the way around for both his home theater and stereo system. The system is comprised of an audio research stereo tube pre-amp, two bryston 7B-ST monoblocks, an esoteric dvd/SACD player, and Aerial 10T's. The system sounds incredible, as it should for almost 30 grand.
Now that you know a little about what he likes, my question comes in. I've always had a little thing about B&W. I love the style of the speakers and I now own them all the way around my setup, except for the sub. He's getting to a point where he's going to be building a new house soon, and is designing a dedicated theater room to accomodate his systems. He's been doing a lot of research into upgrading his two stereo speakers to Aerial's new 20T which go for about 25,000 a pair. I have been encouraging him to just take a look at B&W's highest end stuff. Unfortunately his opinion of B&W was scared back in the 80's which he had an underwhelming experience with some matrix 801's I believe he said they were. Regardless, as much as I love B&W, I am afraid to say I have had the same experience.
I attend college down in California, so when I bought my HTM7, I did not buy it from our local stereo shop I usually get stuff from. While I was there, I listened to their N800's and they sounded *terrible*. Honestly, listening to my 602's were a more pleasant experience. I am completely unable to come up with an explanation for this. I just recently listened to the 803D and it sounded phenomenal. It sounded easily 5 times better than my experience with the 800. And the 800 was indeed being powered by several large mcintosh poweramps.
Is there something wrong with my ears? I really would hate to have to tell him to not even waste his time with anything less than the 803D... The 800 to me, was obviously lacking any sort of bass, and did not have the sort of transparency I have heard with other 800 series speakers.
Does anyone know if a Signature 800D will ever be released?
I just need to rationalize all this for myself before I start trying to sell him on it.... Thanks in advance :-)
In the past year or so, my interest in audio has been revived by my girlfriend's father who is just about as into it as anyone I've ever seen. Right now, he's into Aerial Acoustic speakers and has that all the way around for both his home theater and stereo system. The system is comprised of an audio research stereo tube pre-amp, two bryston 7B-ST monoblocks, an esoteric dvd/SACD player, and Aerial 10T's. The system sounds incredible, as it should for almost 30 grand.
Now that you know a little about what he likes, my question comes in. I've always had a little thing about B&W. I love the style of the speakers and I now own them all the way around my setup, except for the sub. He's getting to a point where he's going to be building a new house soon, and is designing a dedicated theater room to accomodate his systems. He's been doing a lot of research into upgrading his two stereo speakers to Aerial's new 20T which go for about 25,000 a pair. I have been encouraging him to just take a look at B&W's highest end stuff. Unfortunately his opinion of B&W was scared back in the 80's which he had an underwhelming experience with some matrix 801's I believe he said they were. Regardless, as much as I love B&W, I am afraid to say I have had the same experience.
I attend college down in California, so when I bought my HTM7, I did not buy it from our local stereo shop I usually get stuff from. While I was there, I listened to their N800's and they sounded *terrible*. Honestly, listening to my 602's were a more pleasant experience. I am completely unable to come up with an explanation for this. I just recently listened to the 803D and it sounded phenomenal. It sounded easily 5 times better than my experience with the 800. And the 800 was indeed being powered by several large mcintosh poweramps.
Is there something wrong with my ears? I really would hate to have to tell him to not even waste his time with anything less than the 803D... The 800 to me, was obviously lacking any sort of bass, and did not have the sort of transparency I have heard with other 800 series speakers.
Does anyone know if a Signature 800D will ever be released?
I just need to rationalize all this for myself before I start trying to sell him on it.... Thanks in advance :-)
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