Don't let these guys unpack your speakers....

[Axo1989]

Do you think they are available for lifting speakers onto the Klippel?

It's the obvious answer to Amir's large speaker testing problem: tip the Klippel sideways first.

*and that idea is less dim-witted than some of the comments here—nothing of value was posted as people respond to the 30-year-old speaker as if seeing it for the first time.

 

[Salt]

BOWERS & WILKINS Nautilus

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JSmith

Not that bad FR, as to determined otherwise.
As is was this measured would be fine.

 

[Axo1989]

BOWERS & WILKINS Nautilus

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JSmith

Thanks for posting this one, the linked report translates ok as well. Explains Dickie's concept/execution for those interested. And dispersion doesn't look bad there, set them up a bit off-axis to avoid that brightness in a sparsely-furnished room, for example.

 

[audiofooled]

What could have been an excellent disaster video is now nothing more than clickbait

… what a waste of opportunity, what a waste of some perfectly horrible B&W speakers …

This would have been the right way to do it, especially the throw it away part

 

[thewas]

That's the least of this speaker's problems...the off-axis behavior must be wonderful with all the non-waveguided drivers located at visually appealing but acoustically dumb distances from each other.

Thanks to its 4-way design with relatively small drivers it's horizontal radiation is quite smooth without the need of waveguide as also confirmed by the only measurement:

It was designed from Lawrence Dickie which after it made his own loudspeaker company with similar designs which also measure well, for example

Source: https://www.stereophile.com/content/vivid-audio-giya-g3-loudspeaker-measurements

Till the late 90s even entry series B&W models measured well, for example:

Source: https://www.stereophile.com/content/bw-dm603-s3-loudspeaker-measurements

 

[Ron Texas]

Too expensive and too weird.

 

[ta240]

Too expensive and too weird.

I prefer being cheap and weird.

 

[Ron Texas]

I prefer being cheap and weird.

That works for me.

 

[Ricardojoa]

Maybe there isn’t enough meat on the speakers to grab on when its verically

 

[Pearljam5000]

They actually sound pretty good

 

[BrokenEnglishGuy]

BOWERS & WILKINS Nautilus

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JSmith

Thats some nice 20hz !! nice!!
Just 2 filters in the HF and you done, stunning loudspeaker

 

[thewas]

Thats some nice 20hz !! nice!!
Just 2 filters in the HF and you done, stunning loudspeaker

Since it has an active crossover designed to be used with 4 external amps per channel someone could even just attenuate the tweeter amp setting or input signal for a couple of dBs.

 

[TonyJZX]

i'm surprised you old farts (!!!) are so aghast at the appearance

Nautilus is an institution... i rememeber as a kid visiting what is probably Australia's premiere high end shop, Len Wallis, and seeing this sort of thing... along with the accompanyng Marantz reference gear... this is the stuff of dreams to a young man barely eeking out gasoline to get to university.

This speaker is the equivlanet of a Lamborghini Countach or something iconic like that... because it is icnonic.

Is it $100k iconic? well most of you could get buy on a fraction with something from revel or genelec but this kind of thing was always a statement piece for the guys who have a mansion the olympic swimming pool, tennis and basketball courts and the aircon carpetting garage. They're ot there.

Also classic upper treble tilt for the old guys who can afford this kind of thing.

 

[delta76]

They actually sound pretty good

so do speakers that cost 1/10 or less their price. you can do much better with much less.

 

[Talisman]

I really don't want to comment on price or audio quality. But jeez, iconic or not, they're really awful. In that color then they seem covered in painted fiberglass like track bikes. Awful

 

[Berlin]

They actually sound pretty good

Oh yes, when I play this YouTube video through my speakers, I suddenly hear a significant improvement in sound...

P.S.
Maybe its not the speakers but the electronics used in this video...

 

[Jack Harrison]

I had a pair of B&W DM7 MkIIs for a really long time, mostly because whenever I went to a dealer to listen to the latest thing I fancied instead they were a (often big) disappointment in comparison. They were the first B&W speakers to stick the tweeter outside of the main box and maybe the first step for B&W in embracing wider design values, they were designed by Kenneth Grange, a legendary British designer. They still sounded fantastic when I sold them because we were downsizing (ha, ha, ha, says the person sharing the house with me). So, for me, though unaffordable, the Nautiluses still work as a design statement as well as really excellent speaker. I think B&W would argue that function is superceding form in their design as it’s the horn loading that is if not dictating at least inspiring their shape.

 

[Axo1989]

so do speakers that cost 1/10 or less their price. you can do much better with much less.

Thank goodness, we'd be lost at sea without a corrective argumentum ad lazarum in threads like these.

 

[tw 2022]

BOWERS & WILKINS Nautilus

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JSmith

that fr graph is less impressive than my emotiva b1 mods measure , of course they cost $300 (plus Dennis Murphy's time)... i'll call my experience a "win"..

 

[egellings]

What on earth are they doing?

Why not put the stand flat and then place the speaker on it???

I watched the video and the speaker was not dropped or damaged in any way.