Wharfedale EVO 4.4 vs KEF R3

[muad]

So absolute first measurement of my life is here.
Finished setting up everything 30 minutes ago and simply ran a single pink noise on mlp.

I will continue with reading and experimentation.
Advises/suggestions and off course opinions on how my measurement looks are more than welcome

Damn, that's a nice looking measurement. Yours is the second on room measurement I've seen for the R3 metas, and both of you have a perfect in room slope. Seems like they got the tuning right this time (directivity being identical to the old one). The meta material and all the other fluff is just a cherry on top.

 

[Modenacart]

Well it won't make much of the difference, especially on short ones. Main difference is cost especially for finished products. Resistance will definitely be higher when you insert anything in between even if the plugs are berilium or such and you use silver - tin for soldering. Banana plugs are easier to plug/unplug but argument about oxidation on open conductor bare wire doesn't hold if you use OFC cable in the first place. In short between 100€ nice 3 m speaker cable with banana plugs and 9€ bare wire with scrow terminals I choose bare wire.

I wouldn’t use beryllium for anything unless you want to die.

 

[ZolaIII]

I wouldn’t use beryllium for anything unless you want to die.

Funny thing is a guy who sells building materials said same thing for rock wool indoor use to me cuple of days back. I am fine with good old copper plugs and cables, eventually OFC for oxidation over time concerns.

 

[Modenacart]

Funny thing is a guy who sells building materials said same thing for rock wool indoor use to me cuple of days back. I am fine with good old copper plugs and cables, eventually OFC for oxidation over time concerns.

I can’t speak to rock wool but since it is no longer acceptable to kill the people who manufacture and repair our parts (I work with the military) we have spend a large amount of resources getting away from beryllium. A lot of warnings are a little over done, beryllium is not.

 

[Architectorus]

Does anyone know - what is material chassis of speakers in 4.4 - plastic or metal?

 

[Bernard23]

OK. Then you will never experience the purity of single-wire to speaker!
The signal experiences pure transport, with no detours or the potential to get lost between the bi-wires.
Music is more direct and focused. More true to the artist, not showing dual-nature, no time smear due to cancellation waves between the two conductors. Dynamic timbrality and spectral liquidity are enhanced by one set of grain boundaries in one set of cables... two cables have double the grain boundaries, double the impurities, and double the oxygen. Oxygen in the wires takes the air out of the music. This is true.
So I feel bad you will miss the absolute fidelity of single wire. With the money you save on the second cable, maybe you could have upgraded to cryo...

It's because bi-wiring creates intermodulation distortion and latency due the interaction of the magnetic fields of the second set of cables. It can be corrected though by judicious use of a Faraday conduit and a pure silver bobbin to mitigate these stray capacitance and inductance issues. I have several in stock, please DM for prices.

 

[XXTwnz]

It's because bi-wiring creates intermodulation distortion and latency due the interaction of the magnetic fields of the second set of cables. It can be corrected though by judicious use of a Faraday conduit and a pure silver bobbin to mitigate these stray capacitance and inductance issues. I have several in stock, please DM for prices.

Solid silver you say? I've read the silver alloy ones aren't as good unless you use cable lifts, then it is acceptable.