What Are You Doing Right Now
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thanksajdotcom said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@brianlittlejohn said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@brianlittlejohn said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Most speaker design is in the crossover and cabinet.
Except for Bose, most of their design is in the marketing.
B.O.S.E - Bring Other Sound Equipment
Always been a JBL fan personally
Uh..... that doesn't go in any audiophile discussion. JBL isn't Bose but it's not even remotely audiophile either.
Do B&W qualify?
Yes. Even though BB sells them now. B+W go very high but have entry level too. Their too end speakers are $50K a pair!
Yeah, my friend and I were wondering if B&W tanked as a company since they made something they could sell at Best Buy...
Reminds me of Webroot - it was sold for the longest time (maybe still is) as an upsell at BB. I refused to use anything sold there, they mostly only sold/pushed the crap that was crap and had high margins.
It wasn't until I was at a SpiceCorp with Webroot giving a demo that I learned about their journaling feature and gave them a fair shake.. I like them a lot now.
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I've been a B+W user for decades. Not my favorite, that's Totem, but very good.
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Check out Paradigm Reference for something awesome but affordable.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I've been a B+W user for decades. Not my favorite, that's Totem, but very good.
I have a pair of B&W in wall speakers on my wall mounted TV.. they sound pretty good.
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Had my ceiling wired from builder, and threw up a 7.1, working on the .2 to piss off the neighbors. Some nice Polk 3 ways.
I still have to perfect the direction of some of them, but it's pretty freaking loud. -
I got a pair of older Castle Durham speakers from Goodwill... they are amazing. Apparently they sold for something like 700GBP new, picked them up for $80 because the fronts of the cabinets are cosmetically ruined (someone tried to glue, then nail on the screens).
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I've been a B+W user for decades. Not my favorite, that's Totem, but very good.
I have a pair of B&W in wall speakers on my wall mounted TV.. they sound pretty good.
Now wall mounting them.... not audiophile, lol.
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@Texkonc said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Had my ceiling wired from builder, and threw up a 7.1, working on the .2 to piss off the neighbors. Some nice Polk 3 ways.
I still have to perfect the direction of some of them, but it's pretty freaking loud.My surround system is all Polk speakers. Would love to have that second sub to really push all the air out of the room.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I've been a B+W user for decades. Not my favorite, that's Totem, but very good.
I have a pair of B&W in wall speakers on my wall mounted TV.. they sound pretty good.
Now wall mounting them.... not audiophile, lol.
in wall Even worse
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I've been a B+W user for decades. Not my favorite, that's Totem, but very good.
I have a pair of B&W in wall speakers on my wall mounted TV.. they sound pretty good.
Now wall mounting them.... not audiophile, lol.
LOL - can be if you have them in the proper in wall boxes, which they did sell.
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I've been a B+W user for decades. Not my favorite, that's Totem, but very good.
I have a pair of B&W in wall speakers on my wall mounted TV.. they sound pretty good.
Now wall mounting them.... not audiophile, lol.
LOL - can be if you have them in the proper in wall boxes, which they did sell.
Wait, someone actually spent a couple more dollars to do something right? I need to go sit down for a few minutes, can't fathom reality for a bit.
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@scottalanmiller Those B&W's you left us were pretty great.
I think overall, if I had to prick a brand that I like the most, I'd go with either Magnepan or Acoustic Research. Maybe KEF. I got to play with a few pairs of Q-100's in an array, all bi-amped and set for different frequency ranges, and that was fantastic. But above all, I love it when speakers have a good soundstage, and good instrument placement. I've not ever heard anything that images like a pair of Magnepans. Even their cheapest model, the MMG, images better than any box speaker I've personally heard, and better than most Electrstatics costing upwards of twice the price. My current favorites are the MG III-A's, but only because those are the best ones I can afford, or find the room for, because MAN do Magnepans need space to breathe. -
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I've been a B+W user for decades. Not my favorite, that's Totem, but very good.
I have a pair of B&W in wall speakers on my wall mounted TV.. they sound pretty good.
Now wall mounting them.... not audiophile, lol.
in wall Even worse
In ceiling, even worse.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I've been a B+W user for decades. Not my favorite, that's Totem, but very good.
I have a pair of B&W in wall speakers on my wall mounted TV.. they sound pretty good.
Now wall mounting them.... not audiophile, lol.
in wall Even worse
In ceiling, even worse.
The only place I consider in ceiling speakers are for the surround speakers on a surround sound system... because who cares at that point... its just extra sound effects.
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I've been a B+W user for decades. Not my favorite, that's Totem, but very good.
I have a pair of B&W in wall speakers on my wall mounted TV.. they sound pretty good.
Now wall mounting them.... not audiophile, lol.
LOL - can be if you have them in the proper in wall boxes, which they did sell.
Better than nothing, but still not great. You need them seriously isolated from the house and you can't really do that in wall. If you've ever looked at what it takes to do bookshelves properly, no way to do that in wall. Your speakers belong 1/3rd of the way out into the room and not pointed straight forward. In wall, even with great boxes, puts speaks behind the wall rather than out into the room. And there is no way for them to breath properly. It's all about "making due". Which is great if you want nice sound and looks matter. But for audiophilia, you don't take looks into account.
In the same way that the cabinet makes the most difference to speaker design... room design and speaker placement is 100% the value of a speaker as well. A cheap speaker set up well will keep pace with a B+W in the wall.
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@Mike-Ralston said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller Those B&W's you left us were pretty great.
I think overall, if I had to prick a brand that I like the most, I'd go with either Magnepan or Acoustic Research. Maybe KEF. I got to play with a few pairs of Q-100's in an array, all bi-amped and set for different frequency ranges, and that was fantastic. But above all, I love it when speakers have a good soundstage, and good instrument placement. I've not ever heard anything that images like a pair of Magnepans. Even their cheapest model, the MMG, images better than any box speaker I've personally heard, and better than most Electrstatics costing upwards of twice the price. My current favorites are the MG III-A's, but only because those are the best ones I can afford, or find the room for, because MAN do Magnepans need space to breathe.Magnepans are pretty great soundstaging, that's very true. I'm so jealous that you have those. I want a pair like that and a Conrad Johnson or Sonic Frontiers to drive them.
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@brianlittlejohn said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I've been a B+W user for decades. Not my favorite, that's Totem, but very good.
I have a pair of B&W in wall speakers on my wall mounted TV.. they sound pretty good.
Now wall mounting them.... not audiophile, lol.
in wall Even worse
In ceiling, even worse.
The only place I consider in ceiling speakers are for the surround speakers on a surround sound system... because who cares at that point... its just extra sound effects.
Even then you still want the back speakers 1/3rd the way in the room, ear level, identical to the front speakers.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I've been a B+W user for decades. Not my favorite, that's Totem, but very good.
I have a pair of B&W in wall speakers on my wall mounted TV.. they sound pretty good.
Now wall mounting them.... not audiophile, lol.
in wall Even worse
In ceiling, even worse.
The newest fanciest smanshiest surround sound tech actually has speakers that are supposed to be ceiling mounted. Just to make matters even worse, lots of companies designed speakers to reflect sound off the ceiling to emulate that/those channel(s).
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@scottalanmiller I use my totally custom electrically separated dual monoblocks in my Denon PMA-550 chassis, which has ridiculously good quality switches in it, and dual tube-based phono preamps. I love that amp, I'll never sell it.
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@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I've been a B+W user for decades. Not my favorite, that's Totem, but very good.
I have a pair of B&W in wall speakers on my wall mounted TV.. they sound pretty good.
Now wall mounting them.... not audiophile, lol.
in wall Even worse
In ceiling, even worse.
The newest fanciest smanshiest surround sound tech actually has speakers that are supposed to be ceiling mounted. Just to make matters even worse, lots of companies designed speakers to reflect sound off the ceiling to emulate that/those channel(s).
Yup. Even high end (non-hi fi) has done this for decades to get an effect. Check out old dipolar and bipolar and other back channel speaker designs. They have always done some funky things.
