Well im looking primarily to own a brand new pair of shiny goodness. I've owned an incredibly huge amount of speakers in my day including kappa's, ads, McIntosh, JBl, Yamaha's, polk SRS 1.2's, KEF, and a huge multitude of others. I want new, shiny, not boxy, high WAF and as it seems high HAF at this point. I spent some time today at a high end store selling mainly McIntosh gear and B&W speakers. I started with the 104 diamonds and moved to the 102 diamonds quickly. I was not impressed at all. they sounded well... muddy. i dont know what the problem was with an oppo source and all top end mc gear. i tried everything to find the sweet spot even kneeling on the floor in the showroom. it was like a towel put over the drivers.
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