I have a pair of Bowers & Wilkins 801. I bought it in 2003.
The photo gives you a pretty good idea of why this (passive) speaker is sometimes nicknamed THE WASHING MACHINE…
Noteperfect Maestro
Active bass, Passive mids, tweeters
Active: Grimm LS1be
Passive: German Physiks Unlimited II
I’ve always owned passive speakers. I wanted a fun full sounding speaker, didn’t care if it was a little colored. Musical is way more important to me than perfectly flat response.
Wilson Audio Sabrinas
I have active speakers, a pair of Cabasse L’OCEÁN.
http://www.cabasse.com/en/cabasse_product/locean/
Here also Wilson Sabrinas
Meridian 8000SE (digital actives) and Genelec 6010 (analogue actives) plus two pairs of Meridian D33 (digital actives) sitting around waiting to be plugged in.
Congrats Alan.
I have never heard them but the sculptural looks alone make them very sexy
MBL Radialstrahler 101 E MKII (power hungry ).
Passive (but with built in subwoofers):
Just recently sold my GoldenEar Triton Ones before moving into a small apartment, temporarily:
Will be upgrading to the new Triton One ‘Reference’ model very shortly - as soon as I move out of this apartment (very soon).
Can’t wait
Some drool worthy speakers on this thread.
Here’s another example of an ultra-mega-hyper-high-end loudspeaker system that might stimulate people’s saliva production: My Harman Kardon SoundSticks III & subwoofer (both active!). Money no object!
<£200…
Happy New Year everyone!
I have mostly pâssive speakers but I have looked longingly at some actives in the last year or so. It will have to wait now as I just took delivery two weeks ago of a set of Tekton Double Impact speakers.They are not broken in at all, only roughly in place where I estimated they should go in my room, no speakers spikes and not yet matched to any particular amp but I can already definitely describe them as ‘Wow! Value for the money.’ http://www.tektondesign.com/double-impact.html
Those are really nice. I had those for quite some years on my desktop. Classics.
But your Backes & Müller BM Line 35’s… wow
Passive. I’m a KEF head - love those UniQ drivers.
Bedroom - R300 stand mounts.
HT setup - XQ 30/50C/10 (with 2 Velodyne MiniVee active subs).
Great thread! I have a pair of active speakers, Geithain ML 811 K1.
http://www.me-geithain.de/index.php/en/studio/products/active-loudspeaker/ml-811k1
I own a pair of Dynaudio Contour 1.8mk2 speakers for 8 years now and still going strong.
https://www.dynaudio.com/discontinued-models/contour/contour-18-mk-ii