Wharfedale 8.2a's, or 9.1's???

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daav said:
Anyone know any good options for the warfe's 8.2a pro for less than $340? Seems like thte standard rate, wondering if anyone has seen them cheaper anywhere?
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WERNER 1 said:
$305.00 Shipped to my door ---- I've not ordered them yet though.

;)
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What place is that price from? I'm interested in the 8.2a's as well. I have tried to get a hold of deepwater who at one point had a discount for forum members (don't know if he's still offering it) and I haven't heard back from him yet. It's been well over a week... So I guess I may have to start looking at other options if I don't hear from him soon. The $305 price is much better than the $340 price that I've seen online so far.

-tkr
 
It is from Deepwater as well...

It's been a week since I've ordered them.......he must be out of town or something as I've not heard from him this past week either......be patient. :)

Rick
 
WERNER 1 said:
It is from Deepwater as well...

It's been a week since I've ordered them.......he must be out of town or something as I've not heard from him this past week either......be patient. :)
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Ok, from what I remembered his price was $275, so the $305 includes the shipping cost?

I was hoping to get these around my birthday (August 4th) but I guess it's still gonna be a while. lol I've also got two projects I'm currently working on, and having some decent monitors would be a huge help! :cool:

-tkr
 
For those wondering about YSM1P's vs 8.2A's I posted in this thread:

https://homerecording.com/bbs/showthread.php?p=1559471#post1559471


I don't know who said anything about "no negatives to either" but that is DEFINITELY not what I'm hearing coming out of these speakers.
Choose wisely.
Probably best is to listen, and more importantly to mix on each before deciding.

And, as for those saying "PORTS ARE BAD STUFF ALL PORTS!!!" etc etc, you should probably learn a bit more about speaker design. If you seal them, you are significantly altering the tuning of the cabinet as well as the efficiency of the driver. Your frequency response flatness in general - NOT just the low-end extension - will likely suffer quite a bit. If you want a sealed cabinet then buy sealed monitors - they will actually be designed and tuned for this purpose. You are screwing around with people who know speaker design far better than you if you stuff ports.
Done well, ports can be very good and an unnoticeable extension of bass and driver efficiency.
Done poorly, ports can cause a significant bump somewhere in the bass range and will chuff at louder playing volumes.
Some of the tightest, most accurate bass I've ever heard has come from cabinet designs of BOTH ported and sealed types.
The 8.2A's have a really poor bass design. They are wooly and loose and uneven.
YSM1P's have a far tighter, more accurate bass... in fact better than many sealed subwoofers I have heard (and the extension is nearly as good, too). They are ported monitors also.
 
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M is for Monitors

Ports- i'm one of 'em thats not a big fan of them.
i agree the design guys know more than me, but to my ears the bass doesn't sound natural on the lower end speakers i have had the pleasure to meet.

this is an article clip, i can relate to:
SOS:
"Problem two is that the necessarily tiny reflex ports used in small speakers behave in a far-from-linear fashion at anything but low volume levels. There's only so much air that can be pumped through a port before it becomes noisy and a significant source of distortion."

Crutchfield:
Acoustic suspension
A type of speaker enclosure that uses a sealed box to provide tight, accurate bass response. It gives up some efficiency to provide bass that is more accurate and controlled, so compared to a bass reflex design, it may require more amplifier power to play at the same volume level. See also bass reflex.

Bass reflex
A type of speaker enclosure that includes a "tuned" port to increase and extend bass response (by releasing some of the energy created by the inward movement of the woofer cone).

Bass reflex designs are more power-efficient than acoustic suspension designs — they'll play louder than an acoustic suspension speaker when driven with the same amplifier power. But they may sacrifice some bass accuracy in exchange for the added bass output.

trade-off. response vs. accuracy....
 
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WERNER 1 said:
It is from Deepwater as well...

It's been a week since I've ordered them.......he must be out of town or something as I've not heard from him this past week either......be patient. :)
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Hey Werner, have you heard from deepwater yet? He still hasn't responded to my email or PM on the forum....

-tkr
 
Yeah, I emailed him about a week in (just after I posted here) and he responded back saying that the units were shipped to his office instead of to my home and that they were on the way.

I still haven't received them, and I emailed him this weekend about the status of them.

Be paitient, he'll respond back soon I'm sure.

Rick
 
Hey Werner,

Can I get deepwater's email address from you? I tried sending him another email from the forum a while ago and still no answer. I wonder if he's changed it or if it's a different email or something.

He never responded to my first email or my PM.... It's been like a month now and I still haven't even gotten ahold of him yet. :confused:

Thanks,
-tkr
 
That's the same one I've been using.........I think anyway.

I've not heard back from him in a while either......He'll respone eventually. :).......I hope. (I've not received my monitors yet...)

Rick
 
Ok, I may just get them from zzounds or something then. I really (really) would like to have these for the couple projects I'm working on.... So I don't think I can wait any longer unfortunately. :(

Thanks,
-tkr
 
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