Yep indeed, they're desktop units but I still think - even given their
price - they're amazing.
As you've stated the tops and bottoms of those speakers aren't
emphasised in any way, its a nice honest and flat sound and that's great
for music.
50HZ is about right, I think the specs quote 46HZ or something similar
and that's pretty good for computer speakers without a sub-woofer, a lot
of the speakers around now - even with a sub-woofer - only go down to
100HZ and I've seen some that only boast 150HZ which isn't good at all.
On 25/05/2016 5:07 AM, André van Deventer wrote:
Dane
Got it sorted thanx!
Pricy but the most amazing set of speakers I have ever owned.
Just keep in mind they're desktop speakers. They're not made to fill a whole
room. I've heard criticism about that. My feeling is though that you buy a
set of speakers for the purpose you want to use them. I tested them with a
sweep generator program and they go down to about 50 Hz when they start to fall
off. Amazing for such small units!
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From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane
Trethowan
Sent: 24 May 2016 06:38 PM
To: PC Audio Discussion List
Subject: Re: B&W speakers arrived finally
Okay to the problem of the broken tab on your remote.
The bottom of the remote comes off in the same way that the bottom might come
off an older type of mouse when changing the ball, turn the cover anti
clockwise and you’ll feel it come off and the tab will drop out.
The remote control - if its the same one as comes with all other B&W Powered
Speakers - should be easy enough to get around, 5 buttons in the shape of a cross,
2 buttons either side control track back and forward, middle button is your pause
button, up and down control volume, the slightly indented bottom button is your
source - toggles between USB and Aux-In mode - and very top button is for power.
I’m not surprised to hear your summary of the B&W Audio as being subtle but
very desirably so in my opinion.
I had been wondering how you’d been going with this set of speakers and I hadn’t
forgotten, actually I was forcibly reminded of your speaker set yesterday, I’ve
finally managed to save enough money to get the B&W A7 speaker system so
started doing research to find a good price which paid off immediately, I was able
to find a place that had one model left on the floor for sale at 2 thirds of the
original price so that’s been reserved until I can arrange to go and pick it up and
I don’t mind telling you all that the pickup day can’t come quickly enough.
On 25 May 2016, at 1:40 AM, André van Deventer <andred...@webafrica.org.za>
wrote:
Hi all
For those of you who might still remember – my pair of B&W mm1
speakers finally arrived today.
Getting started was rather straight forward. I simply connected up the two
speakers, connected it up to the power supply and plugged in the USB port.
Was a bit of a problem finding the power button on the side of the
active speaker but when I finally found it by accident, the computer
recognised it immediately and installed the windows drivers. It now
shows up in my audio devices as mm1.
The two rather small speakers are surprisingly heavy for their size and
extremely solidly constructed. There are two buttons on the left side of
the speaker for volume control and one on the right side of the
speaker which is the power on button. All of these buttons must be physically
press
so they give tactile feedback. But there is now physicale indication where
they are located.
There is a basic little remote control that comes with the unit which
I have not yet used. You have to pul out f small tab that keeps the
battery door from closing. I messed up things a bit so the greatest
part of the tab broke off! Still have to get the rest out.
The sound that comes out of these little speakers is quite astonishing.
However, if you are looking for booming bass and screeching highs as
seem to be the case with much of the modern equipment, you are going
to be very disappointed. The sound of the B&W is subtle that is the
only way I can describe it. All the frequencies are there that you
would need. And the sound is wonderfully clear.
Am still running some tests so will get back later if anyone is interested.
Regards
Andre
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