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can someone tell me the name of the song? I'm about to buy some B&W 683s

You're damn good

Nice

I know what you mean I demoed the def techs and with the built in sub in the tower are great and the bypoler were great for sound but when I heard the bowers it was like no other and the low end not great but good but then they paired them with the martin Logan dynamo 500 and there it was I'm gonna do a 5.2 for the best possible

Well of I'm to get these I'm really thinking not to but I can't stop thing of them and I really want them i m probly gonna spend the money but if I was to I'm getting a pioneer elite sc-75 225 watts per channel heard it it really puts the speakers up there like 1600$

I really want to buy a quality system but don't think I should spend 6500$ bucks I heard the b and w but I keep thinking I should are these wow every time you play them

You don't need to bi amp with that power holy fuck

Makes a change to see someone testing their speakers with something more complex than the usual plink plink plonk

From the research I've done, bi-amping will provide you little benefit, if anything at all.

the sound is clear as glass in the 683's. thight and responsive. the Dali Ikon 6 had a tiny bit of more bass overall,but it wasn't much... the thing that made me go for the B&W's was the hard tweeter sound on the Dali's and the much better midrange on the 683's. only reason the Dali's sounds better when the woofers move less, is that they lack a midrange and therefor the woofer's "muddens" the vocals... lol. :)

you have the XPA-5 behind the UMC-200? what do you have otherwise? cables etc. it's hard to tell, but I don't think it's the cabling, it shouldn't have THAT much impact to the sound... have you checked the polarity of the speaker cables and the signal cables? if one of the speakers get reversed signal the low end will equal out.

How are you getting so much low end out of the 683s, I have a similar setup but only difference is I am using umc-200 as my processor. Could it be my cabling?

you dont know anything about sound the more your bass is moving the more noise you will get and the other way around the less they move gives alot better sound

its a good pair of speakers but you will get more power from dali in the same prize class because they dont move that much when you crank it up the less moving the better sound

The song name is in the title. It is called "Bass I love you - Basstronics"

I don't have any experience with your speakers, but from what I've read I think you will get a speaker that is more dynamic, and has a better treble and midrange, but I have no idea about the bass. I'm powering my 683's with Emotiva XPA-5. :) 200 watt RMS. My friend's Onkyo 808 was too weak in the most demanding moments, so they need lots of power to shine at high volume with demanding bass sequences. ;)

Cool that's how a speakers should works. Those of you own bose try and play this song.

This speaker/amp combo is one that i have been considering for a 5.1. i have yet to make a decision on which pre/pro to pair with the amp though. i feel the emotiva xpa-5 is the perfect amp for the 683's. did you try any other power sources before the xpa.-5 and if so is the sound quality MUCH better? do you have a surround set up or just stereo? i have also been kicking around the possibility of doing the cm8 or cm9's with the same amp with a pre/pro, and m1's for surrounds to start out.

a good speaker should go down to 30 - 50Hz at the most

I have the B&W CDM 9NT , considering upgrading Rotel to XPA 5 . How did you wire your fronts bi-wire ?

These are very nice speakers no doubt but you are killing them. If you need bass buy cerwin vegas. When you push your speakers this much, you risk partially burning out the insulation on the coils- this will bring down impedance though your speakers may sound fine, and backfire to your amp , thereby burning it. The clip protection does not work well with low impedances

This song sucks but it does a good job at showing the speakers move

I don't think so... the 6990 runs ridiculous hot and the water system don't have any problems in regards to that. but I must admit that I may get a extra single 120mm radiator if I go all the way on my system later on, just to feel comfortable. :)

i HAVE 2 TOWERS I AM WORKING ON 10X 8INC 2 WAY WOOFERS CUSTOM MADE BY ME EACH WOOFER IS RUNNING 150WATTS RMS MAX UP TO 200 WATTS RMS WITH AMP 300 PEAK TO PEAK LIMIT IN WATTS SO 1500 WATTS RMS PER TOWER I GOT 2 PLUS EACH ONE HAS A 500 WATT SUBWOOFER INSIDE OF IT ALSO CUSTOM MADE BY ME ITS TO MUCH BASS AND STUFF BUT I MADE IT SO IT CAN WORK WITH 4 6 OR 8 OHM :) SO YOU CAN JUST WIRE IT TO UR CAR ITS AWSOME STILL WORKING ON IT THO BUT ITS KICKING ASS HARD THATS 3000 WATTS IN FLOOT STANDING SPEAKERS

hello from Greece.i have the same speakers with rotel rb2080 thx ultra.they need a lot of watts believe me

hey take a look att my system and tell me what you think :)

they cost alot... you cannot hear the bass because its too low for the camera microphone to pick up

So much money just for a floor standing set. Buy 3 subs and the small cm1 set and you will have more fun

*facepalm*

It's not damaging the woofer as long as it doesn't reach its mechanical limits. You will notice it if it does.

you can see how the woofer goes wildly in and out at some points. That's because bass frequency is in that point lower than that speakers tuning frequency. That is poison to the speakers especially when listening in great volumes.

Do you really think he will destroy his speakers just because he is playing some low frequencies that makes the woofer flex a little? The only way to destroy a speaker is to send distorted signals, which I doubt he is or pushing the the speaker to its mechanical limits. Can you hear these bottmoming out? no. He can play this day in and day out

i dont hear the bass... how much did those cost lol

haha wow, you are a grumpy little man. I hope all your class serves you well in your quest to leave a negative comment on every hifi related video on youtube.

You're right about the musical taste of the listener. I liken it to rather then eating shit with a plastic spoon, you eat it with a golden spoon! In the meantime there's always a chance you might develop a little class,and in so doing refine your musical taste! When you grow up and become more mature you'll understand this. This way you'll be able to join me in the righteous prick area of youtube! You ugly little toad!

I don't know why people think that enjoying bass or electronic music means we dont appreciate clarity. Why should they have to listen to poor quality sound from a poor quality speaker? The music being played was recorded at the same quality and possibly in the same studio as some of your music, why shouldn't this person be allowed to reproduce it well? How is it a waste of money? Perhaps the classy more tasteful thing for you to do, would be move on to the self righteous prick area of youtube.

hey quick question ive had the rev 2 version of this motherboard for a long time. ive noticed you got a blue light on, what is that? mine is not on like that.

I don't know why people go out and spend a bundle on fine speakers only to ruin them because they're obsessed with "That big bass sound" They should buy some big shitty DJ speakers instead, you know,the ones with 15 inch woofers,and huge crappy horns! The kind they use at those cheesy disco's that play that obnoxious pounding shit they call music.Why do they waste their money on fine instruments?No culture,no education,no taste,and no class!

You can listen whatever you want. I still don't recommend ruining your speakers by listening some stupid basstest with them, especially when they are just a floorstanding speakers and not any kind of subwoofer.

What, so if you own B&W you can't listen to anything other than classical and jazz? Where is this rule written?

:D such a good pair of speakers owned by a person who understands them as much as pig understands diamonds. "oh so cool, your set produces so much bass and pressure that I'm going crazy!"

О чём вы тут все говорите??...Неужели нельзя писать на русском??...

That's great, Thanks for the advice audi200q. I'm going to go to sevenoaks in Warrington and see what setup's they have got. Thanks again.

@pudluvstatu hard to say, but each of the Arcam amps got 800VA transformer, so they do have access to lot of power. so if you bi-amp each of them it should be plenty. my biggest concern would be the low resistance and bi.amping when you push the speakers to the max. but the only way to find out is trying. :)

I'm just starting to get my set up together and so far I have Arcam alpha 10 and 10p amps. I was going to Bi amp but I'm concerned after reading some of the comments that I might not be able to do the 683s justice using 100w. Should I still buy them or forget about it, should I forget about bi amping and use the power amp to take it up to 200w? Thanks. oh and thanks for the vid.

@SubL0ck When you get yourself a pair you could play what ever floats your boat. For now the sound system is his and he'll do as he please.

this setup is a complete mess, also i dont get why you went with water cooling but left the cpu cooling to a noctua.

@SubL0ck I will admit that it is not the moste refined music I've played on this system... :) only for physical demonstration. I don't see the reason to upload a video with the system playing Agnes Obel or something, I would recommend to listen to CD kvality or better if you are on the mission to REALY listening to music. youtube is not that place my comrade. ;)

Such a good system for such a shit music. Lol, what a joke :D