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D-EJ915 · May 30, 2003 at 2:48 AM

Is it just me, or are sony speakers starting too look a lot like B&W ones??...

Here's an example

I'd have to say that the B&W's would be far superior, but..anyway, the sony's are 900 bucks

BoardC3 · May 30, 2003 at 3:48 AM

wow thats a total rip-off of the B&W design i mean did they really need the top driver to be yellow or the tweeter to be placed above like that?

sacd lover · May 30, 2003 at 10:27 AM

Years ago B&W ripped off the free standing tweeter design, you see above, from a French speaker company. Vandersteen has a stepped design that has been copied repeatedly. Mirage from Canada had the first bipolar loudspeakers and Paradigm and Definitive Technology have copied them, to name just a few. This is nothing new. As to why manufacturers dont file copy infringement, I dont know?

bundee1 · May 30, 2003 at 2:04 PM

I thought they were licensed from B&W but I was wrong. I found the article and short review in What Hi Fi? It got a good review. The reason they look so much like the B&W was that they were designed in the UK by some brits.

cyberhazard · May 30, 2003 at 2:31 PM

Naw, those are totally different. The Sony's are black and the B&W's are brown.

IMHO, the Sony line of ES speakers have never been up to par with the ES line of equipment. I've used Sony ES audio equipment exclusively sense 1985 and in
that time Sony has never produced a speaker that was worth a ****. Anyone remember the early ES speakers with the flat square aluminum honeycomb drivers?
OMG, they looked so cool and sounded so awfully bad.

D-EJ915 · May 30, 2003 at 5:55 PM

I'd have to say that I don't the tweeter is on the outside for any reason, but it looks nice. B&W came up with their "nautilus" system, in which you basically put cones behind the drivers:
Nautilus

Here's the Nautilus 804

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Canman · Jun 2, 2003 at 8:58 PM

I have heard the Sony SS-M9 (or maybe it was M7) at the Sony store in NYC w/ an all sony setup in bad room conditions and it sounded pretty tight. Maybe not worth 3,000, but Sony speakers can sound good.

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