I will no longer recommend speakers to people, or tell them what I think is bad. Speakers from white van scams and Bose are verifiably bad, and I will continue to curse their filth. I will only recommend that a potential buyer of speakers go out and listen to speakers and see what fits them, or unbelievable speaker deals which pop up now and again.
I will only make comments about speakers I have had a decent amount of time listening to, meaning mostly in my home. You can strike my ERA speaker review from the records as it was done in a poor environment and has no credibility.
I realize this seems off topic, but I really wish that the Def Tech fanboys would just can it. You people are so high on yourselves I can't hardly see through the smoke. Maybe you are just extremely eccentric and I can't wrap my head around it, or maybe you are just filled with fanboy powers to the likes of which I will never know.
I am reaching a point where I believe, I don't know for certain, that there is something fishy going on here. Your "audition" is a joke, pure and simple. I have auditioned the B&W 802s twice, once in a horrible room, and another time and a decent room. The horrible room had a horrible sound, the decent room probably didn't tap the potential of the speaker, but at least the sound I was hearing was greatly improved.
Lower cabinet volume and driver/power arrangements in the B&W would dictate it's lower end output. The bass should be very accurate in it's operating limits.
Bi-polar speakers are more spatial, that's a fact. It's likely dealer didn't take the time to properly treat the room and position the speakers (more than likely due to their size constraints). I am not surprised this would happen. GlocksRock is correct on this matter, you have almost no credibility on this.
However, this is not the same thing as it was with my mention of the Definitive Tech's amps crapping out. Granted I didn't measure the horrible noise emitted when the amplifier's protection was enabled, and it's possible they somehow had both sets of speakers connected improperly caused the noise (though I can't think of a connection scheme that could have caused such failure). The fact remains, the noise did occur when the rest of the tower was perfectly fine.
It is my suggestion to any reader of any forum, to take everything with a grain of salt, sometimes two. Not everyone on the internet is a genius (I am no exception).
AcuDefTechGuy, it's one thing to love your speakers, but you flaunt Definitive Technology like you own the company. I know you have some valuable input at times, and I give credit when it's due. This thread seems designed to aggravate, and congratulations it worked.
Go ahead and pick all my careless statements out of this post to form your counter attacks, it seems to be the most effective response on a forum. Just know it's not easy to come up with a completely coherent reply at 4:30 in the morning.