That midrange in a separate enclosure (turbine head) makes a massive difference to my ears. I would personally only go 803 and up.
Any owners here of Bowers & Wilkins 800 series D4 yet?
Anyone here owns D4 series?
Actual owner?
Reason I ask: I own the 803 D3. A dealer locally had the 803 D4 on display. So I went to listen.
I was not really impressed from that audition. I felt my D3 sounds better at my home.
Having said this, the dealer had them connected to (obviously) different gear than me, to McIntosh gear, including MC462 stereo amp, and a Mac tubes preamp I am not familiar with. My guess is preamp with built in DAC. They were also streaming via a Sonos Connect.
These kind of auditions are a crapshoot. Unless with my own gear (or similar), and preferably in my room, not much you can learn
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Thank you @greginnh , I appreciate you expanding over your initial post. It helps a lot. And you are right about that, speakers are very room and gear dependent. |
Better how @greginnh ? |