Brand new pair B&W 805 D3 Prestige still setting in their unopened boxes. Speakers located in Tauranga, listing on behalf or my client.

The Prestige

In an ongoing voyage of pleasurable discovery, both partly by design and coincidence, I continue my sonic encounters with quality 2-way standmount speakers . The concept of a small-to-medium sized monitor has a multitude of potential strengths. For starters, the smaller cabinet panels will be less resonant, physically stronger, needing less bracing, resulting in a freer and larger internal volume which, potentially, can provide deceptively generous low frequencies from a relatively small enclosure. Further, a smaller profile baffle will present diffraction benefits with the potential for more precise imaging and that audiophile-treasured “disappearing act”. And should you yearn after a more full-range sound, a good monitor can be mated to a quality subwoofer to provide the desired low-end and dynamic extension.

So, the 805 D3 in its ‘Prestige Edition’ version comes in a stunningly beautiful ‘Santos Rosewood’ high-gloss lacquer finish (at this stage, only the 802 D3 is also available in ‘Prestige Edition’ guise). Prestige Edition’s flawless execution involves the application of 13 coats of lacquer which we’re told extends the speakers’ production time by some weeks (all that curing, buffing and re-applying of lacquers…). That’s the time investment a mirror-like finish of the highest furniture grade incurs, where any semblance of orange peel or any form of lacquer swirl/waviness is totally, and I mean totally, absent. Ditto for the tweeter module atop the enclosure, an equally mirror-like black gloss perfection.

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