I made this post because, originally, last year I auditioned them without checking the specs. They sounded very good and have the type of warmth that I like, but they never were really that good at the bottom end.
I auditioned them at my local Best Buy's Magnolia store. Let me tell you, that "listening room" was a joke. Wrong set up, wrong type of equipment to give the best presentation for a particular equipment, and the guy didn't know too much.
So, I never got to really experience them the way it should be. A lot of times I miss my long gone local Audio Advisor store and their almost perfect listening room for customers to experience a particular piece of equipment, paired with the right synergistic equipment for your evaluation.
I'll never forget the first time that I actually heard a pair of B & W speakers at that store; it was the the 800 or 802; if I recall correctly they were sub- titled tiger or tiger eye, or something like that. they were paired with Krell equipment, man let me tell you, I was blown away when they played my reference standard album: Santana Abraxas.