Sound United buys B&W

mhardy6647 wrote: »

pitdogg2 wrote: »

Aren't they all raisin juice?

Well, yeah -- but but that's like saying that a Ferrari, a Ford, and a Lada are all ways to get the groceries.

Well that's technically correct and as we all know, that's the best kind of correct!

So, I’m not sure what the future brings or what any of this means......as I think Polk has sorta bucked the odds for awhile now and like all good things....

I don’t really think that it’s a case of there is an audiophile lust on the part of the gaining entity. Perhaps SU isn’t in great financial shape and they need something to hemorrhage cash for tax purposes.....who knows but corporate acquisitions and mergers don’t generally seem to be based on anything but numbers on a spreadsheet.

Insofar as Polk goes, it’s got good name recognition.....better than Boston Acoustics but I also think look at what became of AR, Fisher etc etc under Audivox.....so anything is possible

I’ve never completely understood why Masimo, a healthcare company, was interested in audio in the first place. The consumer watches make sense (pulsometers and blood oxygen monitors etc.), but audiophile equipment is increasingly a niche market in the age of Sonos and smart home speakers from Google, Amazon and Apple.

Will this mean more changes at the helm? New moderator roles, or no moderator roles? Or maybe no more forum at all when the new owners move in?

Basically it’s back on the market
We will see who picks it next

That didn’t work out so well the last time… 😱

Maybe they'll produce a B&W that is listenable for more than an hour.

xschop wrote: »

Maybe they'll produce a B&W that is listenable for more than an hour.

I assume that is your experience with B&W speakers in whole?
Curious what it is about how they sound makes you feel this way? I don't share that opinion so I'm simply curious.

I have also selected other brands ( Dynaudio ) over them when I was shopping for speakers many many years ago. I use to Install B&W speakers daily back when I worked at Soundex in Willow Groove PA. We where a huge B&W dealer and did the entire line including the very high end Cinema series, 800 series all the way down to the Leisure Monitors, which by the way are pretty fantastic little speakers, I do own a pair of those in White.

All but the very early Bowers & Wilkins products I've listened to were ear-gougers. In their own way, even harder to listen to than the "heritage" Klipsch products.
The B&W sound is bright and etched; designed to stand out in a showroom environment.
Published frequency response data illustrate this for various models. This is one example only.


https://www.hifinews.com/content/bw-805-d4-signature-loudspeaker-lab-report

Current model, 10,000 British pounds the pair.
If that's the sound you're looking for, you've found it!

This is where I think that personal listening experiences are so important. What sounds “bright” or “ear piercing” to some will be described as “detailed”, “revealing”, or “refined” by others.

There’s no explanation for personal tastes IMH(fbw)O. It’s why I’ve decided that my next purchase will be after hearing the speakers in question myself beforehand.

I know some companies, including Polk, offer free listening periods before deciding to keep the speakers or send them back, but that just seems wrong, so I can’t quite make myself do it. I’m not going to have four different companies send me four different sets of speakers and send three back.

I don’t even send everything I get from amazon.com back unless it really was false advertising or faulty. I just give it away on a local donations group on Facebook.