Have you changed your mind about a brand? Was it you, or them?
I used to have a lot of respect for lower end B&W speakers; bought my dad some in the 1990s and they sounded nice with NAD gear. On my recent outings to audition bookshelves, all the B&W speakers were over-bright to the point of aggressive harshness. I understand this was a choice on their part, perhaps?f |
Totally agree on B&W, which is what I was going to post about. Owned DM1800’s for a long, long time and thoroughly enjoyed them. Back then, I would have ranked them high in the pantheon of great British speaker makers. More recently, auditioning much newer models, I thought them either mediocre or unlistenable. I wonder if the reverse direction is less common: anyone dislike a brand and then later come around to them? |
@twoleftears And I held them in *really* high esteem, so they have really fallen. I like your question about the reverse. And one has to be careful with these questions, since there can be a gap between the lower line of a brand and their upper levels of product. So, can be an apples to oranges comparison mistake. I will add one comment, namely, that I really thought Adcom was very mediocre, but I realized that of my two units -- a tuner/preamp and the amp -- that once I paired a really good tube preamp with the adcom power amp (535L), it sounded pretty darn good. In other words, the amp is still only mid-fi, but it has much greater potential paired with a good preamp than I previously thought. |
Yeah, I wrote a whole blog about the modern B&W treble response and Stereophile pushing it. Drives the fans bonkers. https://speakermakersjourney.blogspot.com/2016/05/stereophile-reviews-data-doesnt-lie.html Glad to know others have also been scratching their head in wondering. |
