Bowers & Wilkins 803 D3 Unboxing First Impressions with a McIntosh Audio Stack (Jim Brower’s Home)
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- Опубликовано: 6 ноя 2019
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Jim upgraded the speakers in his main listening area from a pair of Sonus Faber Guarneri speakers to the Bowers and Wilkins 803 D3! These are our first impressions and tests with this wonderful pair of speakers that costs $17,000 !
Subscribe to see more videos about Jim as I will be working on a video in which he explains his second power box in his basement just for his sound system. He also goes into detail about why he prefers digital lossless files to CD's, a controversial subject we know!
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Wait....100k speaker cables on a 17k pair of speakers? 😂😂😂
Very nice. Thanks for sharing. Want a pair of these myself. Enjoy gentleman.
This guy is a real duck head - drop the $ mention
Likes to brag that he burned 100k on cables.. the priority is so funny with all these cable loving guys. Saving money when it comes to amps and speakers, but on the cables - use it all!
Protip : Your gear will sound better if you used shorter speaker cable, and longer balanced interconnect with power amp placed in the middle of the speaker, with speaker cable not exceeding 1.5m. A Good Balanced XLR sounds very good up to 3.5-4.0 M. The highs are smooth, timing improves a lot.
The guy has good taste in gear, but all this beautiful gear deserves a much better looking listening room.
P F - When you close your eyes, your hearing comes into focus...🙂👍🙏
Ah, man, paneling was all the rage back in the 1970s!
P F why? The look of the room means nothing. As long as the acoustics are good (and these things are good enough to make up for shitty acoustics) and you had everything wired correctly, it really doesn’t matter what the room looks like.
Vincent Ferreira - You have the right to your opinion and as do I. Never once mentioned the look of the room having any effect on sound either. That’s just stupid and any fool knows that.
@@cavalry1213 it does if it’s reflecting sound and rattling like tin can
I'm not necessarily trying to be a "negative RUclipsr"...especially one that deserves Jim's "FU" comment. But, I would like to point out that while I could buy these without monthly payments, unlike Jim, my priorities would be to have more than a $700 room to place those $17,000 beauties in. Dude...remove the Owens Corning from the windows and pay a carpenter close up the wall. And speaking of walls...WOOD PANELING! Kudos to Jim and his "ZERO FOX" attitude towards room aesthetics...but he just parked a Lamborghini in the hood.
Those are some sweet looking speakers!
Brian Moore indeed they are
Please do a sound demo loads of songs out there that are allowed .👍
Fascinating vid. Very curious why Mr Bowers didn’t pursue 802 d3 speaker which would be fine in his room.
Like the Steely Dan. Did you shop these against anything else? What made you choose these?
ACE Flair lol need to know what's good with that channel name change. So Bbooooosted to see Bill back in da house been missing from shanes channel for a while good too see bills doing well. Amazing speakers also.
Lol that’s my Instagram name so I’m just trying to keep it consistent. Thanks for stopping by and showin love!
👍🤗 THANKS FOR SHARING ….I AM SURE EVERYONE ENJOYS THEM NOW THAT THEY’RE BROKEN IN …We have to ignore the negative comments 😍😍😍
And here I am agonizing over buying a ten year old pair of 704,s
I bougth three years old Cm9s2 and now I buy yamaha A-S2200 and this is it... Ma by with ASW 650...and node 2i
i think that stack of Mac helped, I have a set of 704's, part of a seven grand collection of B&W and they all sound good, but these are off the chain
wow really nice enjoy.
Beauties!
Im gonna have to take out a 30 year loan for that set up sir 😁
PS. Your highs will not soften at all. Its a harsh tweeter. You will only get used to them.
What’s a good tweeter?
@@romavictor1811 anything Beryllium is the best IMO. Expensive though
Great speakers! Pompous ass dude!
good gob verry nice component how much is that when here in the philipines
825,000 per pair
I don't think those Audioquest PSS cables cost 100k usd. I haven't seen those prices even at the top cables at AQ.
Elitist rich dude. I was put off by him right when he opened his mouth. He's why the audio hobby has turned into a snob fest.
Nah, you've gotta watch the other video we did of him and how he was being real. Then the people in the comments bashed him for his room and "snake oil" cables. Of course he had to retaliate somehow verbally. If you still don't like him, it's just preference at that point. Just like speakers and other audio gear.
@@EliasJRosario nice response man. Most people would have gotten offended and this whole comment thread would have turned into a pissing contest.
Thanks for the video. Would be better not to periodically entertain then RUclips negativity, just ignore it and do your thing.
The martin logan esl master range wipe out these B&W as reguards detail retrieval capability, the B&W loose important detail information in play back.
Maybe by noe center was upgraded
No one tell him that while they’re gorgeous speakers the 803 is hardly the top of the line.
What are some Bette ones?
Can i ask what is jim bowers doing for a living.
@@BarrettRodriguez ok
I can afford it.
0:17 Yep, he addressed those of us who can’t afford them in the first few seconds.
I feel bad for this pair of gorgeous speaker to end up in such a messy listening room… instantly lost it 17K value. You always use the line “for those who cannot afford” 😂😂😂 well i am pretty sure you can afford some cleaning and organization😉
taggof my pants is frayed
Im sure these are phenomenal, but I'm willing to bet a double-blind test with regular old speaker wire would reveal FUCK ALL differences in fidelity versus his $100,000 silver monstrosity cable :|
Extraordinarily powerful and precise amplifiers, twin monoblocks, magnets, exotic drivers, etc... All work, to an extent.
Cables? Fuck outta here with that shit.
Even if you could somehow hear a difference (you can't), the digital file you're playing off of just went through a crapton of regular old copper and silicon within the circuitry of your hardware... Nevermind that the file itself, even a lossless file, was not transcribed to a digital format using some insane silver wire voodoo magic. It was just regular old copper circuity and silicon semiconductors.
As long as the gauge is up to longer runs and you're using decent copper, it's the same, all the way down. That isn't to say there's *no* value in nice cables (thick ones, pretty ones, etc, all can be nice), but if double blind tests routinely fail to distinguish cable quality, there's nothing more left to be said.
Fight me, fellow audiophiles
This cheapskate couldn't afford the 800 D3?
This guys really good at buying overpriced gear
These are beautiful aesthetically and acoustically. With that said, spending big money on cables is futile.
I mean, to an extent, there’s justification spending some money. Silver does make a good conductor and especially in longer runs. 100K is overboard, but I have some AQ cables for my B&W 702s and they look and sound great.
@@cavalry1213 I'm sorry, but you're wrong. Although I don't believe in absolutism or settled science, the cable debate was over long ago.
I buy the cheapest cable possible because they make no more than diminutive
difference but if you ask people that believe in them they said it makes 25% improvement. Wherever it ain't my money why should anyone care.
Chevy Chase is funny
Grills are bad for sound quality?
So is 1/4” wall paneling in a basement. 😂
Must have missed the Roger Russell papers on speaker cable. Nice system but complete overkill in that room. Gyp board is better than paneling or the wood ceiling. And paper faced insulation for bass traps? Really. Who is this guy? I get the whole "you can't take it with you", but at least drop 5k in the room and update it out of the 70s. Gene DellaSala Im sure has many opinions here.
in 1000
DOOD LOOK IT AT HO MOCH IT COST
you are unboxing a B&W 803, so what's with the condescending attitude toward "youtube viewers"?
God forbid you CAN NOT afford a Gobel Divin Majestic or you would patronize the Gods themselves...
So true
Yeah 803’s are entry level into hifi
im a big gug
Do you guys have somekind of muscle illness ? Or had that constantly shaking something to do with the age and trying to hold in the urine?🤭🤭🤭🤭 Keep well soon.😋
All this money dude living in a trailer
Why he so toxic. Bragging about the cost non stop when he probably can't hear much above 12khz. Really puts a soggy sock on this video
100k speaker cable i wouldnt even buy if i was a billionaire, should have used the 100k to buy a better house?
Guy mentions how much it’s costing every 5 mins. Why do you care what RUclipsrs are saying about your gear. Reeks of insecurity. I made it 3 mins. Turn off. I also have same speakers
Full of crap.
Such an articulate comment
@@billwoolcott4932 Plain and simple.
What an arrogant sounding guy . I couldn't continue to watch .