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B&W 800 D2

For those of you still listening to these speakers, I assume you like them as you’ve chosen not to upgrade over the years. Or perhaps you purchased them used more recently. In any event, I’d love to hear any feedback you wish to share about these speakers (good or bad) if you own or have owned them at some point in the past. I have a potential opportunity to purchase a pair in good condition at a fair price and am curious. 

rjduncan
rjduncan OP
66 posts
 

@soix clearly people have their favorites. I personally have been a long time Bowers fan.  

kennyc
2,973 posts
 

From what I heard, B&W company has been bought and sold a few times. Currently some speaker crossovers are using cheaper parts due to accounting bean counters. Not sure it affects the current 800 series.

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bartsw
239 posts
 

@rjduncan what do you want to achieve and what's your room size? The sub bass could be much for a medium space and the mid bass might be much for a small space.

 

@kennyc the 800 series use Mundorf caps and air-coil inductors for all versions. The 700 series use Mundorf caps, B&W film caps and air-coil inductors for all versions.

rjduncan OP
66 posts
 

@bartsw its a big room with good treatment. It can handle about anything size wise. 

james633
1,056 posts
 

I never got a chance to hear the 800D2 but I remember the 802D having stronger bass tuning than the more current D3/D4 and probably D5. I do however think the new mids are better with less distortion. 

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