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Bowers & Wilkins - 600 Series 685 S2 6-1/2" 2-Way Loudspeakers (Pair) - Black

Enjoy your music with these Bowers & Wilkins 600 Series 685 S2 2-way loudspeakers, which feature 6-1/2" woven Aramid fiber woofer cones for clear sound. The 1" decoupled double-dome aluminum tweeters deliver crisp, pure highs.

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Can Be The Right Tool

on July 5, 2015

Posted by: garydolson

from Rancho Cucamonga, CA

This is the right tool for you if:

- you love music and prefer hearing it as the musicians & studio engineers did in the studio
- have a small to approaching-medium-size room
- hate mediocre sound
- your receiver or amplifier has robust power with which to feed them

I was a pro musician in the 80's and spent loads of time in recording studios. The last 2-channel audio speakers I bought was a pair of JBL L20T's in the 80's which cost me the 2015 equivalent of $900.14 plus tax. They have and continue to serve me well. 30 years later I got the itch and brought these B&W 685 S2's home. I set them up on stands about 1 foot from the wall in a 12'WX13'DX10'H guest room and hooked them up to a Yamaha C70 preamp & Yamaha M70 power amp (200wpc into 8ohms). A laptop served as the music source with JRiver Media Center (v19) as the software player of lossless flac files which were then fed to an outboard Schiit Modi DAC (Audioquest Forest USB & RCA cables). I turned it on and allowed this system to play non-stop for 2 days before listening to it.

WOW! Fast, crystal clear, & natural sound. Amazing with vocals, acoustic guitar, acoustic bass, acoustic drums, jazz, classical, rock; there's nothing they can't do well, and so much they do great. I had mixed feelings when I realized how much they trounced all over my old JBL's in every way - especially with bass, which is always tight & controlled. These are easily Highly Recommended.

I would recommend this to a friend!

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