Borresen Loudspeakers

I've had the X2s for over a week now and they have hardly broken in yet but they are the best speakers I've had to date.  I'm limited in the space I have in my dedicated listening room (~15x20), so mostly had stand mounts or smaller footprint towers such as the Totem Tribe Towers in the past. 

Up until now I've always wanted a speaker that can reproduce percussions well. 

I consider myself a bass head and the Borresens are quite incredible in how much bass they can fill a room.  Even with my sub turned off it still produces bass with authority.  The best part is the bass such as the kick drums are a punch to the chest which is exactly the sensation I'm looking for.  The quality of the bass is fast, articulate, and amazingly deep. 

Can't wait for them to open up even more with time and additional placement/positioning to fully lock them in.

deep_333

495 posts

02-02-2024 at 01:38am 

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In a properly dialed-in multichannel music rig, you would hear no speaker or know where any sound came from ...except that the music will be all inside of ya before you knew it (in your head, inside every body cavity, etc), overwhelm you/ take over to the point where the audiophile’s thinking mind and all the squirrels in his head get shut down (bam)...nothing left but the music.

I don’t find allure in your wording, lol. I don’t mix more than two body cavities and music. Personal preference, obviously. 😉

Just let a fella enjoy the excitement over a renewed 2-Ch experience, hey? Properly implemented multi-Ch immersive sound is a neat new toy, but requires a lot of computing overhead in either kit or owner, and aims for something the vast majority of owned / streamed music isn’t (yet) optimized for. It’s also truly a matter of taste whether it bests more traditional approaches. Sounds like you and OP like the same speakers - ain’t that enough!? 😆

Don’t forget that Børresen speakers are

always demoed with 150K of Ansuz cabling.

And their bass and placement is really tailored to big rooms, just like the Raidhos Michael used to design. 

Don’t forget that Børresen speakers are always demoed with 150K of Ansuz cabling. And their bass and placement is really tailored to big rooms, just like the Raidhos Michael used to design. 

Friend of mine has the big Raidho on 'cheap' blue jeans cabling and it seems to sound sublime..dude has one of the nicer Esoteric dacs, however...

Wow, I get a strong hate vibe from some of the comments on here. What’s particularly disturbing is that I’d bet the majority of the haters have not actually heard the speakers. So much more goes into a quality speaker design than the size of the woofers. Sure, they do cost a lot, as do so many other high-end products, but they are extremely good. Are they a good value? You’d actually need to hear them before arriving at judgement.