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I think BL90 is high end.. any thougts?
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Paul McGowans’s opinion of B&O speakers
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I think PS Audio have struggled to bring their Aspen Loudspeaker series to market. 3 major redesigns of their current flagship i believe? One was what they thought would sound good but sounded bad. One that sounded OK but difficult to make and the current FR30/10 range.
the FR30 is in the same territory as the Kii3 Loudspeaker. GBP20-30k. It competes with the 28s but is simply outclassed by the 50s and 90s. Paul knows this and compares his gear to the A9 and below.
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I have one of their power Regenerators. It does its job, its basic electrical engineering in a solid box. Its broken down twice now.
Make of that what you will?
That broken TL tube would annoy me big time!
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BL90 is high end but is a huge amount of money - I doubt that is what he thinking about! He will be thinking of the A9 I guess which is great but not really what most would describe as a Hi-Fi speaker though they sound a lot better than many. As the PS Aspen cost $3500, I doubt he would consider £125,000 speakers!
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Peter,
You missed a zero on that.
The FR30 are nearer $35000/£30000. Add in some appropriate Amplification, power conditioning, pre-Amp, dare Ii say a Dirac black box for Room Correction and they are price-wise competing directly with the BL50s.
I know its subjective (it is for me), but I listened to a demo of a pair of Focal Evo Utopia (Valhalla Heaven) Scalas with a Gryphon Diablo 333 integrated amp and a dCS Rosini Apex Streamer a few weeks ago in a stores new listening room (killed dead by acoustic treatments) - about £95-100ks worth. Was not even close to the 50s with a BC-Core to my ears and the 90s would have lest that setup completely crushed.
Where B&O and High-End Audiophile Brand/Setups (HEABs) are different from each other is that B&O has a very laid-back relaxing sound. The current fashion for HEABs is to have a very "twangy/electrified/tense sound" - as if this equates to real-life sound etc...Its all Norah Jones...come Away With Me at 10000Volts. Fatiguing.
Quite correct! I was lucky enough to have what I think were Beolab 90s demonstrated to me (I think that is what they were) by Geoff Martin - this was prior to their announcement and they were behind a curtain - I am afraid that Lee and I were both pretty cloth eared and did not identify that these were such high end devices - Geoff hid his disappointment in our ears very well! I have just obtained some BL5s which are great but again probably completely wasted on me!
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