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Originally Posted by
Geruvah 
Those are okay songs to test the t200b speakers with. I own them. I completely disagree with your bass could be overpowering statement.
The bass remains tight, clear, and accurate. I'm a jukebox player, so I listen to all music from Acoustic (the speakers really shine with this), to electronic music (all sub-genres within), classical, jazz, game and so on and so forth.
These speakers stay true to accurate sound, feel free to EQ because of that. There has been no distortion when bringing up bass, mids, or highs (unlike my Senns which is best to leave the EQ alone). It certainly sounds great with my electronic music. Dubstep or electro house certainly doesn't lack any punch or power, trance remains clear, and electronica will have every flaw revealed (it's really easy to hear badly mastered songs). Their strength really shines when it comes to piano, acoustic, and orchestral. Their clarity is unmatched in my experience of active computer speakers. They remained fun listening to my music like my epic orchestral collection without sounding analytical.
Something I wish it did was made it easier to match the separate volume control on each speaker. You can keep turning right as much as you can, it won't stop. So you can easily lose your place and it clears what volume setting you're using when you turn it off. So I just keep on all the time on max and use my pre-amp as volume control.
My equipment is my Mac Pro -> Digital Out -> Keces DA-151 -> Cayin HA-1A ->t200b/HD-650
I agree with you 100%, I'm editing it as I go along, these speakers tend to get better everyday LOL, the distortion in metal is actually sounding really nice, I'll be changing my review shortly.
However, if you listen to say some parkway drive, or some dethklok, the double bass tends to resonate in alot of cases. It sounds nice when you get used to it, however its meant for a sub.
Listen to L no Kabe (google it on mediafire or youtube, mediafire would be a better choice as its better quality mp3), the bass on that is extremely tight and accurate.
I changed my review on the bass a bit, its more specific however I stand by that statement. I have messed around with the EQ and metal does considerably get better when you eq the bass down, but at the cost of losing the double bass punch.
Its hard to find much info, although I'm naive on this field, I assuming your dac is better then my AVR's dac. So you may be getting it a lot clearer (although I could be wrong, I've never said to myself I need a better dac with this thing xD) then me. I can't find any real info on keces (as in product page, prices).
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Originally Posted by
Somnambulist I'm hoping the Focal CMS 50s I'm going to get are going to have enough low end to let me hear everything in dubstep, as I do listen to a fair bit of it. Not so fussed about subwoofer test tracks, although they're fun, as they're in another realm altogether. Nothing more annoying that a bass line cutting out during certain notes, it takes me out of the song completely.
When I had my MK's, they performed quite well for dubstep. I didn't have the feeling of cutting certain notes, it actually produced the low frequencies clear, however, the lowest song for dubsynth was shambala system check (that I've listened to on those speakers).
I checked out the Focal CMS 50s, they seem to go down to 55z which is where my speakers are rated.
The swan MKIII's (although listed down to 53hz) tend to go down even a bit lower and are still loud enough. These if anything should outperform the Focal CMS 50's in almost all aspects (although not hearing the focal's, but looking at them, I feel the MK's have all around better drivers and electronics, including the xover). As I stated before. Swan is tending to move towards better low end drivers to satisfy a more general public, the low end out out performs my T200b's.
The thing is though, dubstep usually is just designed for a sub, I mean... think about it.
Edited by HxCKhaos - 5/18/11 at 9:36pm
