Pearljam5000
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They look pretty gimmicky to me especially at $15K
You could consider them to be gimmicky, but good design and materials costs $. When you take into account that they have amps, speakers, DACs, DSP, etc, I wouldn't say that they offer terrible value. I'm just a bit fed up with my lounge looking like a hifi shop.They look pretty gimmicky to me especially at $15K
I also looked into these, similar situation with Roon & analog source. For the Roon part, might just use it as ChromeCast and stream 96/24 to them, much easier that way.I'm just trying to figure out the best way to connect the speakers to Roon and my two analogue sources (Nagra IV-S and Revox B77 mkII). I'm thinking about connecting directly to the Roon Rock PC (with USB->SPDIF converter), and then using the 3.5mm line in for the analogue devices using some type of switch.
Do you think there might be a difference in quality between optical in and ChromeCast streaming?I also looked into these, similar situation with Roon & analog source. For the Roon part, might just use it as ChromeCast and stream 96/24 to them, much easier that way.
I doubt it, the USB-Optical converion seems like extra step. Also, since you are using Roon, you can perform the Active Room Compensation in the 28s and should able to tweak the tonality with the PEQ in Roon to your liking.Do you think there might be a difference in quality between optical in and ChromeCast streaming?
Unless this particular style really matters to you, you can do far better with far less money with options like multichannel Genelec digital monitors. I guarantee you a similar amount spent on Genelec 8351B/8361A’s will absolutely blow away anything comparably priced from B&O — in every acoustic category, from quality to power etc. And no need to worry about DAC or amp or DSP with digital Genelec’s either.I'm seriously thinking about selling all my gear and buying a pair. They look beautiful and supposedly sound great. Plus, I'm getting fed up of the never ending cycle of swapping/upgrading DACs, AMPs, speakers, and all the cables are doing my head in!
100% Genelec > B&O aesthetics for me personally. But this is extremely subjective, and in no way is meant to invalidate your aesthetic preferences. Keeping that in mind — I personally find B&O hideously distasteful (a representation of esotericism for it’s own sake fighting to shut down otherwise superior engineering choices so it can pretend it’s not a speaker), while I find the Genelec Ones to be a unique and beautiful intersection of art and science (continuous waveguide yielding smooth sculpted curves that are not only beautiful and exotic, but exist for a real purpose).There's no way I'd be putting out a pair of Genelec 8351B speakers in my lounge. Would you rather have these on display rather than the B&Os? I really like B&O design (from all decades) - so I guess it is just a matter of differing taste.
Have you heard the Beolab 28s?I find B&O hideously distasteful (a representation of esotericism for it’s own sake fighting to shut down otherwise superior engineering choices so it can pretend it’s not a speaker), while I find the Genelec Ones to be a unique and beautiful intersection of art and science (continuous waveguide yielding smooth sculpted curves that are not only beautiful and exotic, but exist for a real purpose).
But I’m well aware how subjective aesthetics are. But that’s precisely my point: If you consider buying these, make no mistake — you are not paying for audio performance, you are overpaying to an absurd degree to buy solid but entirely unexceptional speakers that make an exceptional (and potentially polarizing) aesthetic statement. As long as you’re aware of this, and choose it, there’s nothing wrong with that.
I find the Genelec Ones to be a unique and beautiful intersection of art and science
The Beolab 90 should be much better than the 28s, and I found them extremely unimpressive for the price (as I say, Genelec’s at 1/10th the cost I find to be very clearly superior). I’ve heard the Beolab 18 and it was so clearly worse than the 90 that it wasn’t even worth spending any time listening to.Have you heard the Beolab 28s?
In terms of subjective aesthetic preference? I think Sonus Faber makes some of the most beautiful speakers in the world in the wood/earthy tones variety (whereas e.g. Magico M speakers are beautiful in a more futuristic technological way — completely different kind of aesthetic, not necessarily better or worse).I value your opinion, you're obviously a learned person. What are your thoughts on my current speakers (Sonus Faber Olympica III)?
If you don’t value the aesthetics, haptics and UX then that statement could make sense, otherwise it’s nonsense. Those aspects can’t be duplicated in real life for $825.That said, B&O speakers sound good, and would be a very decent value purchase only if they cost about 5% of what they ask for them.
Genelec can be in bothB&O in living room, Genelec in listening room.
Only the One series on wood veneer which will never happened.Genelec can be in both