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Speakers: Standmount vs floorstander
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<blockquote data-quote="Timber_MG" data-source="post: 18491" data-attributes="member: 18"><p>@RR The midrange and treble of B&W speakers (and that is almost all of those that I have heard but specifically the 600 series) had for ever not sounded right to my ears.</p><p></p><p>With time I learnt that this is related to a dip in the power response in the mid-range and a strong flare-up in the upper midrange. This character is passable in very damped rooms, but side-wall reflections and other early reverberation carries this signature which I find particularily disturbing (might have something to do with listening predominantly to headphones which might not image like a loudspeaker but are timbrally correct and consistent and make speaker listening thereafter a often disturbing experience).</p><p></p><p>These power response irregulaities are common to many traditional mid-bass + 1" dome speakers (specifically on the lower end where even a 4US$ tweeter is too much), but B&W have always struck me as being very far down that line. In direct comparison with other models in live environments I have often found them sounding really harsh even though they are fairly flat within a 30 degree horizontal envelope)</p><p></p><p>They are well value engineered products and have their place, but just not my cuppa tea.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Timber_MG, post: 18491, member: 18"] @RR The midrange and treble of B&W speakers (and that is almost all of those that I have heard but specifically the 600 series) had for ever not sounded right to my ears. With time I learnt that this is related to a dip in the power response in the mid-range and a strong flare-up in the upper midrange. This character is passable in very damped rooms, but side-wall reflections and other early reverberation carries this signature which I find particularily disturbing (might have something to do with listening predominantly to headphones which might not image like a loudspeaker but are timbrally correct and consistent and make speaker listening thereafter a often disturbing experience). These power response irregulaities are common to many traditional mid-bass + 1" dome speakers (specifically on the lower end where even a 4US$ tweeter is too much), but B&W have always struck me as being very far down that line. In direct comparison with other models in live environments I have often found them sounding really harsh even though they are fairly flat within a 30 degree horizontal envelope) They are well value engineered products and have their place, but just not my cuppa tea. [/QUOTE]
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