You're not going to find B&W computer speakers at Best Buys as far as I
know, we're talking about "A Cut Above The Average" here <smile>.
On 27/05/2016 11:50 AM, Brent Harding wrote:
That's a brand I've heard a lot about online, but never got to
actually hear how they sound. I imagine they don't sell many, if any
at all, of their speakers in the major chain stores like Best Buy. One
of their smaller Airplay systems might be nice though.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Dane Trethowan"
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Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2016 11:31 PM
Subject: Re: B&W speakers arrived finally
I moved to get the B&W A7 system as quickly as I could given that B&W
were recently taken over so Goodness Only knows what changes the new
crowd are thinking of making given they're in the home automation
business and not in the business of making products that sound good.
The B&W sound is lengendery if I dare say so myself.
On 25/05/2016 4:57 AM, André van Deventer wrote:
Got the rest of the tab out! Very simple actually you simply have
to open the battery compartment!
Very handy little control indeed. All the functions work with fobar
2000 which is what I am primarily use.
Still can't get over the sound of these little speakers!
-----Original Message-----
From: Pc-audio [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
Mary Otten
Sent: 24 May 2016 06:01 PM
To: PC Audio Discussion List
Subject: Re: B&W speakers arrived finally
I hope you can manage to get your remote control working. I prefer
it immensely to the controls on the speaker, because they have no
tactile indication, and because you have to reach for the speaker in
order to use those controls. Plus, with the remote you can move
among tracks and stop playback. It's a very handy little unit.
Mary
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On May 24, 2016, at 8:40 AM, André van Deventer
<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi all
For those of you who might still remember – my pair of B&W mm1
speakers finally arrived today.
Getting started was rather straight forward. I simply connected
up the two
speakers, connected it up to the power supply and plugged in the
USB port.
Was a bit of a problem finding the power button on the side of the
active speaker but when I finally found it by accident, the computer
recognised it immediately and installed the windows drivers. It now
shows up in my audio devices as mm1.
The two rather small speakers are surprisingly heavy for their size
and
extremely solidly constructed. There are two buttons on the left
side of
the speaker for volume control and one on the right side of the
speaker which is the power on button. All of these buttons must be
physically press
so they give tactile feedback. But there is now physicale
indication where
they are located.
There is a basic little remote control that comes with the unit which
I have not yet used. You have to pul out f small tab that keeps the
battery door from closing. I messed up things a bit so the greatest
part of the tab broke off! Still have to get the rest out.
The sound that comes out of these little speakers is quite
astonishing.
However, if you are looking for booming bass and screeching highs as
seem to be the case with much of the modern equipment, you are going
to be very disappointed. The sound of the B&W is subtle that is the
only way I can describe it. All the frequencies are there that you
would need. And the sound is wonderfully clear.
Am still running some tests so will get back later if anyone is
interested.
Regards
Andre
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