Buchardt S400 versus Buchardt S400 Special Edition

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  • GlennDog
    GlennDog Posts: 3,120
    F1nut wrote: »
    During the last year I demoed monitors in my office, which ranged from $5k to $7k, this SE version at $2600.00 beat all of them. If they do another run of the SE version I believe I'll have to buy a pair.

    Jesse,
    Curious minds would like to know . . .

    Can you share the models that Buchardt bested in your listening sessions ?

    just wondering, bc ... today I did a thing

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  • VR3
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    What'd ya do
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  • GlennDog
    GlennDog Posts: 3,120
    edited August 2022
    trusting Jesse's ears and the reviews . . . . I sprung for the Zebra clad S400 MKII Siggy
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 50,645
    edited August 2022
    GlennDog wrote: »
    F1nut wrote: »
    During the last year I demoed monitors in my office, which ranged from $5k to $7k, this SE version at $2600.00 beat all of them. If they do another run of the SE version I believe I'll have to buy a pair.

    Jesse,
    Curious minds would like to know . . .

    Can you share the models that Buchardt bested in your listening sessions ?

    just wondering, bc ... today I did a thing

    You're testing my little grey cells...lol

    The only ones I recall right now are the Aerial 5t with a special finish or some such and a pair Skip had, but I don't recall the name and a pair made by a French company that I don't recall the name of. It wasn't Triangle. I believe there was another one, but I'm drawing a complete blank on them.
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  • Braddles63
    Braddles63 Posts: 185
    VR3 wrote: »
    That finish looks much nicer

    Polk should do something like that for the fifty year anniversary. 50 pairs of a sda monitor, 3k a pair.

    Sign me up

    Polk could / should also do a modern take on the something like a monitor 5 or 7.
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  • Emlyn
    Emlyn Posts: 4,523
    Braddles63 wrote: »
    VR3 wrote: »
    That finish looks much nicer

    Polk should do something like that for the fifty year anniversary. 50 pairs of a sda monitor, 3k a pair.

    Sign me up

    Polk could / should also do a modern take on the something like a monitor 5 or 7.

    Agree it would be nice. But, it's a curiosity to me why so many companies have been putting out wide baffle speakers for two channel systems in the last few years. I like them but it seems like a strange trend given the direction speaker design has trended towards in the last 30 years. Marketing seems to be nostalgia driven.
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  • VR3
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    Nostalgia $$$$$$
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  • jbreezy5
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    Emlyn wrote: »
    Braddles63 wrote: »
    VR3 wrote: »
    That finish looks much nicer

    Polk should do something like that for the fifty year anniversary. 50 pairs of a sda monitor, 3k a pair.

    Sign me up

    Polk could / should also do a modern take on the something like a monitor 5 or 7.

    Agree it would be nice. But, it's a curiosity to me why so many companies have been putting out wide baffle speakers for two channel systems in the last few years. I like them but it seems like a strange trend given the direction speaker design has trended towards in the last 30 years. Marketing seems to be nostalgia driven.

    Small speakers became so ubiquitous, but demand for silver-faced receivers, warm, full sounding speakers, and as you mentioned nostalgia, have rejuvenated new models of old speaker design.

    I actually like this trend, because some of those old designs sounded dreadful (some excellent too), but modern driver technology gives new life to this segment, IMO.

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