B&W 706 S3 vs 705 S3

A Pioneer receiver???  Where were you that they didn’t at least have a decent integrated amp to demo those speakers? That’s embarrassing. Lemme guess — Best Buy? 🙄 Find another store. 

Yeah it was Best Buy… so what.

You tell me another store that’s going to have all those speakers setup, and able to easily change back and forth between them.

There isn’t one. Jump off your high horse pal, you aren’t being helpful.

Nothing wrong with Best Buy. My nephew just purchased a pair of Martin Logans from Best Buy and he could not be happier. Save yourself a grand and get the ones with the enclosed tweeter. BTW, many moons ago I had B&W and they were very boomy sounding in my room!!

Because Best Buy absolutely sucks.  I worked at Magnolia for a bit.  They don’t know what they’re doing, their speakers are all pushed up against a wall not cause that’s where they sound best but because it’s easier for them and are hooked up to low-rent receivers.  You wanna buy from Best Buy, be my guest but you’re being totally ripped off.  The fact that you’re not even curious about other speakers than B&W tells me this is just a waste of my time anyway.  Look at Fritz speakers cause the Carbon 7s will blow the mediocre B&W speakers you’re looking at outta the water.  Or look at these Ushers that use a proprietary diamond tweeter B&W doesn’t offer until you spend north of $9k. I’ve heard the speakers you’re looking at and you can do much better with either of the above alternatives.  I’m not on a high horse, just decades of experience and am just trying to help you choose better speakers for your hard-earned $$$.  But if you’re hell-bent on overpaying for very mediocre B&W monitors have at it.

https://soundapproach.com/usher-dancer-mini-x-7-2-way-diamond-bookshelf-speakers-pair.html

Nothing wrong with Best Buy. My nephew just purchased a pair of Marten Logans from Best Buy and he could not be happier. BTW, many moons ago I tried B and W and I found them boomy in the base!

@yogiboy There’s so much wrong with this. First, it’s Martin Logan. Second, you can say lotsa things about B&W speakers but boomy bass is not in their DNA. And third, for God’s sake is bass and not base! Seriously? Last, Best Buy absolutely sucks. Their high-end rooms aren’t horrible for what they are, which also suck IMHO, but their low-rent rooms are an absolute embarrassment to any semi-serious audiophile. I worked there, so I pretty much know their gig.  They suck.