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Hi, I find that the question depends on who finds satisfaction with a musical representation of a particular set of components in a particular environment. In the end you are always listening to the weakest link in the chain. The speaker is the final element in the chain but all of what precedes it does play a significant role. Many years ago I had a set of double large Advents powered by a Macintosh 2105 Amplifier with a C-28 Macintosh Pre-amp and a B&O 3000 Turntable with a SP-12 cartridge. This to my ears was quite musical.Then my Stereo System evolved and today I am many steps removed from that. Yet in 1970 I was completely satisfied with the above described "System". Things do not need to be perfect nor the most expensive to give you a "Musical Illusion". All I can say is that that system was the first time I believed to be in the realm of a "Concert" and I really enjoyed it.

Thanks, well I would post a picture of the speaker set-up if only i knew how. The air bearing tone-arm I designed was a work in progress over a span of about 8 years. I then concluded that it sounds just fine and quit tweaking it. The key element centers around eliminating resonances thru 7 barriers of de-coupling the same. I have no engineering background. The most help I received was a Engineer at Ford who worked on suspension systems. He gave me the 5 cent course of resonance elimination. Well I took that to heart and applied that theory. The tonearm which I used for reference was a Denessen air bearing tangential tonearm. I had 2 Luxmann PD 300 turntables, same record, and 2 identical cartridges and the only variable was the tonearm itself, based on that I made my changes, upgrades, alterations. What did i listen for? More music. Yeah stereo is a hobby and it keeps me occupied. I have approx 10000 lp's and 3500 cd's. My current favorite is something along the lines of new age music. Regards Reiner K Studenroth

Hi I own 4 of the latter 801 B&W speakers, i build a set of stands to place one on top of the other predating the model 800 concept by a couple of years. The tweeters are spaced 1" apart from one another. The woofers are powered by a set of mono Adcom GFA 835 300 wpc, and the tweeter midrange modules are powered by a set of Sony mono Esprit 900 250 wpc Amplifiers. Wires are Monster on the woofers and Cardas on the tweeters, Pre-amp is a Denessen JC-80. Room size is 12'6" x 21'. in my humble opinion it sounds quite well. I believe it to be very musical. I have always liked the sound of the B&W speakers and this is my idea of how to improve the sound. Send me your e-mail address and I will send you a picture of the set-up. I also build my own air-bearing tone arm that is de-coupled 7x. Regards Reiner K. Studenroth topspeed200@gmail.com