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zepplongfellow · 02-15-2008, 07:45 PM

It is finally arrived my tax return in the back countless hours of overtime and now sitting in my living room is a pair of B&W 685 speakers. To say I am happy with them is the biggest understatement I could ever speak.

So far I have been listening to them for about 4 hrs straight with zero hearing fatigue I have listened with them as 2 ch, 2 ch with sub, DD and DTS with my remaining athena's. Early impressions of 2 ch is unreal how much bass a bookshelf speaker can put out. I put on my wife's Rihanna CD and Oh My I have to double check if my sub was on and it wasn't. I also listened to Diana Krall, Dave Mathews Band, Pearl Jam, Carrie Underwood, NIN, Carrie Underwood, Pink Floyd, and others I can't think of. After throwing every genre of music at these things they continue to amaze. The sound stage crushes my athena's in the ground. Also a bad rap from some is that B&W's don't like to play loud. Well they diffidently do play loud.

On to movies. My biggest fear is that the B&W speakers would over whelm my other speakers while listen to music and movie's the the 5.1 + formats. Well they do and they don't. After calibrating with my RS meter the center sounds thinner but not that noticeable to annoy. Dialogue was still easy to listen to and not drowned out. I think my room treatments have something to do with that. I don't think I'll upgrade my center or my surrounds or my sub anytime soon. I am damn happy watching movies with these. Mid range sounds are vastly upgraded from my older speakers. Movies used were Underworld, Casino Royal and X-Men: The last stand.

So the verdict ? Where they worth $600 ? You bet your ass. These sound better than any floorstanding speakers I listen to growing up from your "Big Box" store.
Here are the pics

02-15-2008, 07:45 PM	#1 (permalink)
zepplongfellow Thread Killer Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: The U.S. 2nd Most Dangerous City	Bowers & Wilkins 685 Loudspeakers It is finally arrived my tax return in the back countless hours of overtime and now sitting in my living room is a pair of B&W 685 speakers. To say I am happy with them is the biggest understatement I could ever speak. So far I have been listening to them for about 4 hrs straight with zero hearing fatigue I have listened with them as 2 ch, 2 ch with sub, DD and DTS with my remaining athena's. Early impressions of 2 ch is unreal how much bass a bookshelf speaker can put out. I put on my wife's Rihanna CD and Oh My I have to double check if my sub was on and it wasn't. I also listened to Diana Krall, Dave Mathews Band, Pearl Jam, Carrie Underwood, NIN, Carrie Underwood, Pink Floyd, and others I can't think of. After throwing every genre of music at these things they continue to amaze. The sound stage crushes my athena's in the ground. Also a bad rap from some is that B&W's don't like to play loud. Well they diffidently do play loud. On to movies. My biggest fear is that the B&W speakers would over whelm my other speakers while listen to music and movie's the the 5.1 + formats. Well they do and they don't. After calibrating with my RS meter the center sounds thinner but not that noticeable to annoy. Dialogue was still easy to listen to and not drowned out. I think my room treatments have something to do with that. I don't think I'll upgrade my center or my surrounds or my sub anytime soon. I am damn happy watching movies with these. Mid range sounds are vastly upgraded from my older speakers. Movies used were Underworld, Casino Royal and X-Men: The last stand. So the verdict ? Where they worth $600 ? You bet your ass. These sound better than any floorstanding speakers I listen to growing up from your "Big Box" store. Here are the pics Last edited by zepplongfellow : 02-15-2008 at 08:37 PM.