Well, I did end up purchasing 683s. I had a pretty small laundry list, but I did also look at Klipsch's reference series, and ended up deciding that they lacked the rounder, warmer sound of the B&W, but cost a decent bit more. I listeded to the B&Ws driven by a couple different Marantz ~100wpc integrated amplifier, but ended up taking home a Rotel 100x2 power amp that I'll drive off the pre-outs of my reciever until I decide to upgrade to something fancier named, like a "home theater processor" - as I need video switching for all the video games and whatnot.
I too was pretty impressed by the B&W sound when driven by "just" an integrated amp - to the point where I found myself thinking I would listen to the demo disk (which wasn't an artist I liked) simply becuase it sounded good on those speakers. Of course, I'll get them home in my goofy living room and it'll be different from the listening room at the store, but hopefully I'll have forgotten what rooms with egg crate walls sound like by then. -- androidtopp My SB3 is the most expensive part of my stereo. So I'm not going to brag about it. And my SBB as well...Is it wrong that my alarm clock is worth more than most of my stereo components? I need to work on that. http://www.last.fm/user/androidtopp ------------------------------------------------------------------------ androidtopp's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=19681 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=57719 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
