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Buchardt S400 MKII - Review & Measurements by Erin

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Seems like they compete with the R3 meta, price-wise. While the FR itself looks nice, the estimated in-room response appears to be somewhat treble-heavy:

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Seems like they compete with the R3 meta, price-wise. While the FR itself looks nice, the estimated in-room response appears to be somewhat treble-heavy:

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The directivity is good enough that you can just shelve down the highs if it's too much, luckily.

The harmonic distortion is... not amazing. Like to be fair 96dB at 1 meter for 1 speaker is pretty loud, but still - 3% above 100hz I am not that impressed by.
 
I found it very good but not great tbh. The Ascend Sierra LX measures better and costs less.
 
The directivity is good enough that you can just shelve down the highs if it's too much, luckily.

The harmonic distortion is... not amazing. Like to be fair 96dB at 1 meter for 1 speaker is pretty loud, but still - 3% above 100hz I am not that impressed by.
Yes, the distortions and directivities are both not bad especially for a compact 2-way loudspeaker but the problem is that for the same money someone can get the 3-way coaxial R3 Meta which performs in both fields even better.
 
The directivity is good enough that you can just shelve down the highs if it's too much, luckily.

The harmonic distortion is... not amazing. Like to be fair 96dB at 1 meter for 1 speaker is pretty loud, but still - 3% above 100hz I am not that impressed by.
Is more like -3% below 100hz, above 100hz is -1%. But at 100-180hz is like something between 1~3% as you said. Erin has draw the line so i just post that imagine instead of make it using Paint
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Directivity looks good enough, the raise is at 9hz-20khz just 1-2dB, the good thing is because they are using a 19mm tweeter, the they can do that with not boosting the area between 7-9khz too much, that range is much annoying than the 9khz+, which gives more ''airy sound'' etc.

But yeah, with a bigger 3-way speaker the range between 100hz-200hz will looks cleaner.
His tower looks cleaner as you can see, but buchardt like so much to doing these small 2-way bookshelfs, there is only the active A700 tower
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Yes, the distortions and directivities are both not bad especially for a compact 2-way loudspeaker but the problem is that for the same money someone can get the 3-way coaxial R3 Meta which performs in both fields even better.

I agree, but might be close enough that I would want to audition both. The S400.2 bass looks a bit stronger. Either are solid designs overall. As with others, prefer tower speakers. Directiva r2 should come closer to my ideal. Just need to get it to the finish line!
 
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