G'day,
I'm currently doing comparisons of the B&W 805 against an Australian-made bookshelf speaker.
One thing I noticed was that the Australian-made speaker seemed somewhat harsher in the mid-range. I asked the manufacturer why this may be so, and his response was that his speakers are "brutally flat across the 500hz to 10khz region", whereas the 805 de-emphasises the mid-range. So what I consider to be a "harsher" mid-range in comparison to the 805 is actually a neutral mid-range.
A quick google reveals a similar response with the 801:
Source:
Is there a similar mid-range depression with the 805? Is this what is meant by the B&W "sound" that I've heard about?
I must note that I quite like the 805 sound, but I'm wondering if I'll adjust to (and eventually prefer) the flatter response of the other speakers.
Although I don't know if a perfectly flat response is a good thing -- are mid-range troughs introduced deliberately to counter room reflections?
Any thoughts?
-- Geoff
I'm currently doing comparisons of the B&W 805 against an Australian-made bookshelf speaker.
One thing I noticed was that the Australian-made speaker seemed somewhat harsher in the mid-range. I asked the manufacturer why this may be so, and his response was that his speakers are "brutally flat across the 500hz to 10khz region", whereas the 805 de-emphasises the mid-range. So what I consider to be a "harsher" mid-range in comparison to the 805 is actually a neutral mid-range.
A quick google reveals a similar response with the 801:
The far-field in-room averaged frequency response is particularly interesting, if not as obviously neutral as one might expect. The broad midband decade is impressively flat, 150Hz-1.5kHz, but there's a quite obvious depression of around -5dB in the presence zone 2-4kHz, while the treble proper stages an equally pronounced recovery above 4kHz. There's also a distinct discontinuity at 2.5-3.5kHz.
Is there a similar mid-range depression with the 805? Is this what is meant by the B&W "sound" that I've heard about?
I must note that I quite like the 805 sound, but I'm wondering if I'll adjust to (and eventually prefer) the flatter response of the other speakers.
Although I don't know if a perfectly flat response is a good thing -- are mid-range troughs introduced deliberately to counter room reflections?
Any thoughts?
-- Geoff
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