How I love new speakers...and ones that sound good!

zingo

I decided to buy a new pair of bookshelf speakers but it ended up not being Polks. LSi7s looked good, but I decide to go out of my comfort zone and try a pair of B&W 602 S3s. (A friend once suggested B&Ws) They sound great. If you ever get a chance to listen to a pair of these, do! And with a $600 MSRP, you really can't go wrong. The emphasis can be a little high some times, but they are a great sounding speaker, a more than fair price, and look so good too with the Kevlar driver and the phase-plug style dustcap. The only problem is that my ears hurt now from listening to all my music way too loud. I guess that is the price my ears have to pay for great sound...

venomclan

Hi Zingo,
Welcome to the dark side (B&W). I made the same jump a few years back. They are not the #1 high end speaker manufacturer in the world for nothing. Opened a whole different level of sound for me. If they are new, the kevlar takes a bit of time to break in so in about 200 hours, you will hear a different and better speaker. Enjoy
V

Bill Ayotte

I have an old set of 600i's and I love them...I would really love to pick up a pair of LSI7s and A/B them though....

RuSsMaN

The tweeter has a foam suspension also, and will settle in after some break in time. I've had quite a few B&W, and they are certainly a speaker to dispell the statement that a speaker doesn't break in (sound change) over time.

Always been a fan of the 600 series, a lot of trickle-down tech from the uber high end lines Bowers & Wilkins offers. Not bad coming from a couple of British Queens eh?

Cheers,
Russ

zingo

Well the dark side sounds pretty good. These things really are a piece of work with their imprinted baffles and the dimpled ports. It's funny that there is nothing between bookshelf and floorstand as far speaker classes go. The 602s wouldn't really fit on a shelf, at least no shelfs that I have. Oh well, I never wanted them for that purpose anyway...

JimBRICK

I've been looking into B&W for a while now the 600 series is really affordable.

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zingo

Nice!