Speakers You'll NEVER Be Disappointed With

[@TheJoyofVinylRecords]

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[@GD710ASt]

Bought a pair of these used a few mos back from The Music Room as part of a trade-in. End-game for me and my smallish office. They sound great with my Schiit system.

[@samidebs3559]

I purchased the S400 mkII 2 years ago I love them🎸

[@mindhead1]

+1 love my s400 mk II

[@dennycote6339]

Passive radiators are 4th order alignments. They can play deeper but roll off much faster. Very Cool speaker. Found you by your AT60 vs. At60x vid. NICE!

[@dennycote6339]

Ive been bending my eardrums with Zach Bryan (Pink Skies) and Deadmau5(Quetzacotl)

[@TheJoyofVinylRecords]

Cheers, Denny! 🍺

[@RonGrift]

Cool configuration but still old school. Still in love with my Bowers & Wilkins 801 Matrix Series 2 from the early 90s. Still mint and sound amazing. Accurate and precise.

[@1Hiprascal]

I'm liking your videos. Enjoy your tone, style, production etc. Currently I am considering the KEF R3 Meta as replacements for my Elac Uni-Fi Reference. In the indigo blue. Listening to Rick Nelson, Little Feat, Saga, Wishbone Ash, City Boy, Jethro Tull, Yes....CD and vinyl records. Cheers, keep up the good work!

[@TheJoyofVinylRecords]

Cheers & thank you! The KEF are great speakers

[@chrishmeet]

They are remarkable speakers

[@cobar5342]

They seem very lovely

[@polderpeil]

I have these in blue and really like them. I have paired them with the Buchardt I150 amplifier. Very good match. The I150 has a digital preamp and I have my Parks Audio Waxwing connected via optical. Happy listener :-) Like your channel and attitude!

[@TheJoyofVinylRecords]

Thanks, Marcel!

[@carlbrown3634]

Nice review! Thanks for sharing.

[@AlphaXiro]

Found them on amazon

[@fredlennon5937]

Reliving some 70's music. The criminally underrated BeBop Deluxe: Sunburst Finish and Live in the Air Age. Listening through Klipsch Heresy IVs. Raven Nighthawk integrated tube amp, Thorens TD 160 with Nagaoka MP200 cart. Very robust , dynamic and fun, but I am starting to feel I am missing a bit of detail through the Heresys. Might take a look at the Bucharts. Another great video Rick😊

[@mindhead1]

How do you like the Raven Nighthawk? I’ve considered getting that amp,but there is not much info available about it online and the try and return penalty is a little steep for me to risk on a product I can’t demo in person.

[@fredlennon5937]

I have to say it is everything I wanted. War., dynamic. GREAT ustomer service, and Ameri an made. Purchased 3 years ago.. VERY happy with it.

[@TheJoyofVinylRecords]

Thank you, Fred!

[@JWD1992]

Bill Nelson is a genius. One of my favorite guitarists ever.

[@elbebe1000]

I have those Buchard S400 first edition. And end of the game for me. Mat did a great job and I am sure S400 MII should be better. Keep up the good job Sir.

[@TheJoyofVinylRecords]

Thank you!

[@rofgabor]

they look way bigger than their measurements. I was always intrigued by them, sound like endgame speakers. I love that you recorded this episode with the speakers on the desk, I wish all audio reviews were done like this. It's simple and brilliant. I always (have to) browse for the part of the video where the product is shown. I have to say the looks is a bit strange (goofy), with the grills it appears Mickey Mouse have found his ears. And I should add, Mads Buchardt is very responsive and kind, via emails, unlike most speaker companies.

[@TheJoyofVinylRecords]

Mads really is a great guy.

[@jasonarsenault3791]

Damn beautiful. Great job man

[@TheJoyofVinylRecords]

I appreciate that. Jason!

[@riccitone]

Great review. Another competing speaker that’s said to hit way above its price would be the Fritz Carbon 7 Mk II’s. Would love your impressions on those. Currently, Samara Joy on Spendor Classic 4/5’s 🙏🏼

[@TheJoyofVinylRecords]

Thanks, John!

[@Reluctantaudiophile]

I’m gonna need a pair of these in red, bright Ferrari red!

[@3dimensionsofmusic3D]

FIFO 🎉. You are one smooth operator 😉. I'll take 2 pairs. I have the aforementioned model 5s too so these definitely would be on my short list otherwise. Well 👍 done. Cheers 🍻. Greg

[@TheJoyofVinylRecords]

Now I have that Sade song stuck in my head 😂🍺

[@neilfisher7999]

I've been listening to some America, CSNY, and Clapton on my BlackIce tube amp through my Zu DWs. I'm pretty satisfied with my setup. It's always interesting to hear about other products, but at this point, it's all about just listening to the music.

[@chrislj2890]

I feel the same as you, being perfectly happy with my Willsenton R8 and DW6 speakers. I might try another phono cartridge and do some tube rolling, but right now it's all about enjoying my music

[@TheJoyofVinylRecords]

Yes it is, Neil!

[@mindhead1]

Nice Review. I run my s400 mk II with a Willsenton R8 tube amp and Orchard Audio Starkrimson Ultra w/ a DMP-A8 as a preamp. They sound excellent with both amps. The power from the Ultra really makes them sing. It takes the already great bass response of the s400 to a next level. In a small to medium sized room you probably don’t need a sub with the s400. In any case I highly recommend these speakers.

[@pnichols6500]

Cool, I haven't had a chance to hear their speakers before, I have a larger room and run Klipsch Forte IV'S, but I have the DMP A8 and it's great. Also have a R8 that I use occasionally as an amp with a Parasound preamp, or sometimes use the R8 as an integrated by itself when listening to records. With some NOS tubes it's a pretty nice amp.

[@TheJoyofVinylRecords]

Cheers, Errol! 🍺

[@mindhead1]

@@pnichols6500 Interesting. I guess many of us follow similar paths in this hobby. I have been contemplating picking up a set of Forte IV. I want to experiment with low watt tube and class A amps and figured a high sensitivity speaker like the Forte IV is a good way to accommodate that. I’m also Klipsch Heritage curious. I think I can see a gear endpoint in my future, but I still have a desire to hear different speakers.

[@crazyprayingmantis5596]

Try to get your mits on some EPOS speakers

[@TheCollectorCave]

These seem great! I'm still rather new to vinyl and as I mature in this hobby I'd like to eventually land here. Currently I'm running my Audio Technica TT to my Vizeo surround system via Bluetooth (which I'm sure is sacrilege to many), but until I make some rearrangements in my living space, bluetooth it is. Currently my surround sound w/subwoofer actually sounds good to my ear and is loud enough so I can hear it on my back deck while I BBQ in the summer (about 30ft or so from speakers to back deck). I worry that speakers this size wont have high enough DBs for that. Do you think these speakers will reach that space with enough sound? They appear to be bigger than bookshelf speakers, but I'm just not sure! Also, these are passive speakers, coreect? I do have a built in pre-amp, but again, this is a lot to fully understand being so new to all of this! Thanks!

[@TheJoyofVinylRecords]

Hard to say about the ability to reach your back deck. It would depend on the amp driving them - but they can certainly be driven to be loud if that's the goal. They are passive and would require an amp. Maybe something to think about in the future? And don't worry about BT - it's all about the joy of vinyl and especially music!

[@BradyJohnson1]

Nice video! I always wanted to listen to these. That's surprising that they're 4ohm speakers with a sensitivity of 87! You definitely need an amp with some decent power for these speakers. Question: are these good low-volume speakers or do they need to be louder to sound good?

[@TheJoyofVinylRecords]

You definitely want some power to drive them. If you do have the power they sound just as good at lower volumes.

[@patrickroberts8702]

Interesting review. What am I listening to ? Somehow I had managed to miss Jackson Browne in the 70’s and 80’s and I am now on a mission to grow my collection. Like so many releases of the period, a few are CD only. Best Pat

[@WilliamSmart-g3s]

Passive radiator on my Klipsch KG4’s. I’m torn between the KLH model 5, JBL L100 classic. Those look nice.

[@TheJoyofVinylRecords]

I love the Model 5s. I'm still thrilled with them and they've been in my main listening room for going on two years now.

[@sidesup8286]

Passive radiators started becoming popular in the 1970s. Polk used them in their great selling model 10 speakers, which put Polk on the map. Vandersteen, a few years later in the 1970s, used them in the model 2C, which to this day is the best selling high end speaker of all time, (the Advent loudspeaker was not expensive enough to be considered high end). The Vandersteen model 2 advertisements in the late 1970s/early 1980s advertised them as "Dimensional Purity." And that they were! Their price about $900 a pair was around the inflation adjusted equivelent of the $2,700 price of the Buchardts today. The Vandersteen model 2 with it's passive radiator and its out of the box midrange and tweeter under the grill cloth, was rated as Class C but borderline Class B by Stereophile in their rankings. I heard the model 2's once with Beard tube electronics, (British I believe), and it was a match made in heaven; the Vandersteens could have passed for Class A speakers back then in many ways with the right equipment. The tweeter waveguide with a shape like that, I first saw on a Radio Shack speaker, again from that same era (late 1970s). It was the Minimus model 11. It's smaller brother the Minimus 7, which had a smaller woofer, no tweeter waveguide, but also had a metal cabinet (smaller), could very well be the best selling under $100 speaker of all time. I've been listening to a lot of 1970s music, A Trick Of The Tail by Genesis, Average White Band (their name was a joke), they were so way above average it isn't funny. Some Jeff Beck, Traffic, Michael Franks, American Beauty & In The Dark by The Grateful Dead. Brahms piano concerto #2 and Rachmaninov piano concerto #2 Johannes Brahms was a controversial personality, and after attending parties before leaving, would say "Now that I've offended everyone, I can leave." Boring people are even more offending to me.

[@TheJoyofVinylRecords]

You've inspired me to pull out my copies of American Beauty & In The Dark

[@sidesup8286]

An attack video was done against u by Ken McCallif (spelling?), yesterday afternoon on KZbin. The whole video dissected all kinds of things you recommend, that he says is "bad advice". You may already have heard of this, but the last line of his heading is TONE CONTROLS SUCK. Of course there is no such thing as adjustments sucking on anything audio or in any other field, unless what they do is worse than what they fix. In this case, tone controls might very very slightly diminish a few things sonically by 3 or 4%, if you are sitting attentively enough in front of the speakers and really focusing. But making dull boring recordings have life, and making bright harsh unpleasant recordings enjoyable to listen to, that you can easily hear 100 feet away in another room; that's more than 3%. Way more, and it's one of the oddest things ever that tone controls have for the most part disappeared. So it is HE that is giving the wrong advice; not you. In his comment section he met up with quite a bit of resistance. About half of them mindlessly followed the herd, but there were pro tone control people voicing their opinion too; and how ridiculous it is to think that recordings that are too dull to hear the high overtones of a trumpet or cymbals, are more faithful to the original performance than a slight treble boost to hear the sounds that the instruments make in real life. Or being able to decrease sounds that the instruments do not make in real life, that exist due to incompetence in mastering, and pressing. He also found fault with your saying that you don't have to spend much money on a turntable to get great sound. You do not have to spend a fortune to get good sound buying any category of audio equipment, be it turntables, amps, speakers etc. But you do have to go up to at least the price point of what it cost to build and sell a good turntable or set of speakers etc. There are people who've put together complete systems under a grand, by buying vintage, whose sound is just as much fun to listen to as systems of today, costibg ten times as much.

[@TheJoyofVinylRecords]

@@sidesup8286 I actually saw that video completely by accident. It popped up on my feed. If nothing else, I had to laugh. He missed my point about the turntable and phono stages. The folks I am speaking to in my video are those new to the vinyl experience. Do I recommend an external phono stage? Absolutely. But I'll never tell someone they can't get into vinyl and have a great experience with a built-in one. He took much of what I said out of context and applied it to high-end audiophiles. Oh well... what can ya do except have a beer and smile. I still say tube rolling is a form of tone control.

[@sidesup8286]

Anything yhat changrs the tonality in a way you prefer and feel you need, is better than listening to something in a way you don't like how it sounds. Tone controls are the easiest way to do that. People in the late 1950s did not have to suffer through harsh bright recordings.Convincing them that they have to now, with no tone controlling and spending a fortune to boot. There must be some slick salesmanship going on. on.If in 1960, you had Quad ESL 57 speakers. a decent reel to reel deck with volume adustment, and a Dynaco tube power amp; you had better sound quality than 98% of audiophiles today.

[@geoffreydebrito7934]

Beauty is truly in the eye of the beholder. My reaction to the particular colors offered is not a positive one.

[@TheJoyofVinylRecords]

They also sell standard colors for the S400 MK IIs like black, white, walnut, light oak, etc.

[@phonatic]

Unfortunately, I was not pleased with the S400 MKII at all and had to send them back. Turned out you can only place them close to the wall (as advertised) if you don't intend to use them. The upper bass was way too boomy, while the highs were quite harsh. The mid-range was too recessed and unbalanced. I burned them in for 48h, which seemed to have further increased that behaviour. Have kept my much cheaper Warfedale Diamond 225 instead and never looked back.

[@yttean98]

Nice pair of speakers. According to some reviewers/users/owners, they are too polite.

[@GordonPyzik]

I would just have to turn these speakers upside down.

[@kellypollock]

I'm driving my S400 MkII speakers with the TS A75 - amazing pairing, just stunning. A nice tube preamp makes the whole package just holographic!

[@TheJoyofVinylRecords]

Great amp you have there, Kelly!

[@jukingeo]

I am already disappointed by the price. 2500 for a bookshelf speaker? Forget it!

[@FrightfulMess]

I've replaced my cheap speaker wires with pure copper piping. I tried PVC piping first, but the music was leaking badly at every joint, so yea, you get what you pay for! I also found that a silver/copper/63% alloy small piping fed to my sub-woofer performed MUCH better than my neighbor's dog, who couldn't woof very well if his life depended on it! I also suggest that everybody invest in a good set of passive/aggressive sub/super barkers rather than a set of lazy woofers; they are SO perky in the low to VERY low sonics that only albino mole rats can hear. So, watch these videos, spend a ton of money on speakers, and you 2 can fill your basement with genuine stereo music, but only when the wife is at work and you can crank those babies to foundation shaking levels that will drive the neighbors nuts, because NOBODY can track down where all THAT racket is coming from!

[@TheJoyofVinylRecords]

" I tried PVC piping first, but the music was leaking badly at every joint".... the best!

[@toddd7444]

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[@dejanmatic393]

COULD YOU RECOMEND SPEAKERS FOR HEAVY METAL MUSIC UNDER 1000 EURO.

[@TheJoyofVinylRecords]

It would depend on the amp you are using. KEF makes great speakers that are under 1000 euro.

[@dejanmatic393]

@@TheJoyofVinylRecords Thank you, will check them.