Hi,
I have received my LS50 wireless 2 and I was not as pleasantly surprised as I hoped. I have used them only at a reasonable volume level (<35, lockdown issues...) and at that volume I am not sure that many people are able to notice a great difference with the passive version or the previous wireless I or am I maybe even less an audiophile than what I thought? I am not sure it was worth the extra bucks in my case but I am really pleased with the ease of use and overall they are great, no doubt about that.
My room is quite small and I feel the bass are lacking clarity at low volumes. I don't know if that is something that can be improved with a subwoofer or if this is completely unnecessary in a small room. (< 20m²). There is an option to tell if you speaker are close to the walls but using that removes noise but it feels like it eliminates a part of the frequencies. I don't like that but not having it feels like it give some fatigue.
I hoped I'd be able to tell the difference between lossless qobuz and spotify with those speakers but it wasn't easy (I have not tried at higher volumes though). Are there available tools to do those kind of tests? I am curious to know what sound level is used by people reviewing speakers to judge the quality. Really I would like to know at what volume the difference between spotify and lossless is supposed to be obvious. I am not even sure I could tell as on this test from 16Khz I wasn't able to tell the difference https://www.audiocheck.net/blindtests_frequency.php?frq=16 between full range vs filtered sample. (not sure if relevant though)
I have received my LS50 wireless 2 and I was not as pleasantly surprised as I hoped. I have used them only at a reasonable volume level (<35, lockdown issues...) and at that volume I am not sure that many people are able to notice a great difference with the passive version or the previous wireless I or am I maybe even less an audiophile than what I thought? I am not sure it was worth the extra bucks in my case but I am really pleased with the ease of use and overall they are great, no doubt about that.
My room is quite small and I feel the bass are lacking clarity at low volumes. I don't know if that is something that can be improved with a subwoofer or if this is completely unnecessary in a small room. (< 20m²). There is an option to tell if you speaker are close to the walls but using that removes noise but it feels like it eliminates a part of the frequencies. I don't like that but not having it feels like it give some fatigue.
I hoped I'd be able to tell the difference between lossless qobuz and spotify with those speakers but it wasn't easy (I have not tried at higher volumes though). Are there available tools to do those kind of tests? I am curious to know what sound level is used by people reviewing speakers to judge the quality. Really I would like to know at what volume the difference between spotify and lossless is supposed to be obvious. I am not even sure I could tell as on this test from 16Khz I wasn't able to tell the difference https://www.audiocheck.net/blindtests_frequency.php?frq=16 between full range vs filtered sample. (not sure if relevant though)