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<blockquote data-quote="Phil Graham" data-source="post: 25640" data-attributes="member: 430">Re: Home Audio Systems&nbsp;Ben,Your newbie light is showing <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />~<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":-)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :-)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":-)" />~:smile:Bowers and Wilkins is one of the <a href="http://www.bowers-wilkins.com/Discover/Discover/History_of_Bowers_&amp;_Wilkins/1960s.html" target="_blank">grandfathers</a> of the British HiFi world.Anything from B&amp;W that Best Buy is selling likely comes from an off shore facility. The big dollar B&amp;W stuff comes from England.The <a href="http://www.bowers-wilkins.com/Speakers/Home_Audio/800_Series_Diamond/802-Diamond.html" target="_blank">B&amp;W 802</a> is one of the &quot;standards&quot; of recording studios and mastering. The latest incarnation of this loudspeaker has a diamond tweeter.There&#039;s a lot of good physics on the B&amp;W website. I suggest poking around, you&#039;ll learn something!Another historic player in this space is <a href="http://www.atcloudspeakers.co.uk/intro.php" target="_blank">ATC</a>. Billy Woodman is a sharp loudspeaker designer, and it was great to meet him at AES several years ago.HiFi people have much different criteria than over here in the pro-sound world. Power response and directivity behavior is totally different than what we deal with (i.e. not thought about enough).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Phil Graham, post: 25640, member: 430"] Re: Home Audio Systems Ben, Your newbie light is showing :)~:-)~:smile: Bowers and Wilkins is one of the [URL="http://www.bowers-wilkins.com/Discover/Discover/History_of_Bowers_&_Wilkins/1960s.html"]grandfathers[/URL] of the British HiFi world. Anything from B&W that Best Buy is selling likely comes from an off shore facility. The big dollar B&W stuff comes from England. The [URL="http://www.bowers-wilkins.com/Speakers/Home_Audio/800_Series_Diamond/802-Diamond.html"]B&W 802[/URL] is one of the "standards" of recording studios and mastering. The latest incarnation of this loudspeaker has a diamond tweeter. There's a lot of good physics on the B&W website. I suggest poking around, you'll learn something! Another historic player in this space is [URL="http://www.atcloudspeakers.co.uk/intro.php"]ATC[/URL]. Billy Woodman is a sharp loudspeaker designer, and it was great to meet him at AES several years ago. HiFi people have much different criteria than over here in the pro-sound world. Power response and directivity behavior is totally different than what we deal with (i.e. not thought about enough). [/QUOTE]

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