10 Jahre B&W Nautilus

[nrelverson1]

That has got to be one of the strangest speakers i have ever seen! Yet i can't help but feel it is beautiful looking at the same time :S

[samados969]

Focal Grande Utopia III For The Win ^^

[poloman58]

They go great with Classe, and B&W owns classe.



[jabulanyi]

Preis?



[lago4]

Weener Snitzel!!

[FLAVIOFLASH10]

Só o valor de uma Nautilus dá pra comprar 25 mini systems SONY...hehehehe.

[matt08220ify]

it sounds like you guys are trying to take a shit when you talk........ and write

[BigRooster747]

Sounds goooood, lots better than the matrix 801..... ow.

[jewzii1]

the most ugly speaker ever made... 

[RUSEL2510]

@jewzii1 ахахахах )))) lol 

[FrapEm]

thats one funky speaker

[kopjesenseo]

this are the best speakers ever made!

someone don't like them because they are to unforgiven and to straight

they think sometimes thats te speaker that is not correct but in case

of the nautilus its the recording that make's or brake it!

[olaniyi570]

Danke fuer die Einsicht, aber es ist nur weil information von Anfang an felt!! Und da hilft auch ihre 100,000 Euro teure Anlage nichts.

[kopjesenseo]

Very expensive you need 4 very high quality amps or 8 mono blocks !

I heard the real nautilus in emmen(the netherlands) and can say

they sound not like a speaker,the nautilus sound more neutraal

and real.what you put into it come's out.sometimes beautifull sometimes

boring.It depends very on the quality of cables,amps ,cd player,and recording.

The speed and ease and the clarity and emotion of the music.

You hear the full spectrum and every detail,you can hear things

other speakers mask.

[olaniyi570]

Ein Lutschsprecher blaest besser wie ein Hornlautsprecher.

[olaniyi570]

Ganz egal wie gut die Anlage ist. Digital klingt im Endeffekt steril und unkommplet. Wird dann oft nach zirka 30 min. langweilig. Analog forever!

[kopjesenseo]

@Sirflatch bullshit.

that's not by all digital systems the case.

and the nautilus speakers sounding more real than most crappy shit you see elsewhere

[kopjesenseo]

@Sirflatch you can't give a normal reaction??

whats wrong with people on youtube today.

[chujarka02]

disgusting lenguage.

[socksumi]

I heard these old nautilus compared to Quad 2905 electrostatics, Sorry but the Quads killed them--more life-like and subtly detailed. The B&Ws sounded comparatively hard and thin with some metallic coloration and noticeable glare in the mid treble.

The B&Ws had superior deep bass and filled the room in all directions but in the all important midrange they didn't compare to the Quads.

[theprof291166]

@socksumi I agree with you regarding Quads - however you should listen to Giya, from Vividaudio dot c_om - the designer Laurence Dickie invented the Nautilus and 20 years later came up with Giya. I can confirm as a avid Quad owner that Giya is the nearest to a Quad I have heard so far - almost perfect and with a lot more power than the Quad ESL. Best thing is the transient response is almost as good too. Amazing believe me.

[kopjesenseo]

@socksumi no,that hard and thin sound come's not from the nautilus speakers.

that have to do with the recording or amplification! i mean it realy.

the nautilus have no''sound'' and are very very neutral.

give them better amps,better recordings, and room accoustics and the sing

the stars from heaven!

a quad is no match for a nautilus.

some peaple have an other taste..they look for an specific sound with extended warmt or so.

the nautilus concept is based on respect to the real music no distortio

[socksumi]

@kopjesenseo I completely disagree. No transducer on the planet unravels detail like a good electrostatic. and the Quad 2905 is among the best. The entire diaphragm in the Quad is lighters than the Nautilus's tweeter alone. This gives it faster acceleration. Plus force is acting over every square millimeter making it a true force over area transducer. When it comes to microdetail and absence of spurious distortions, the Quad is superior to all cone/dome speakers.

[kopjesenseo]

@socksumi yes you have a good point because an eletrostat have no

magnet or cone breake up problems.

but sorry i have heard the nautilus and is a very good speaker.

many people that heard them shall agree.

things like hifi is also a bit a matter of taste.

no one have the golden ears unlike you are 12 year:p

but good that you give your opinion nothing wrong with that!

greetings from the netherlands

[theprof291166]

@socksumi Yes - and no. As a lover of electrostatics - and I own a Quad ESL based system as well. I also was part of the development team of Nautilus at B&W, and now selling the successor - the GIYA G1 which uses refined but basically the same concepts as Nautilus. Electrostats don't have break up neither does Nautilus as each diaphram is pistonic - is also a dipole and all defraction and resonance is removed by the shape and tubes.

[theprof291166]

@theprof291166 Electrostatics flop around internally and are far from rigid - which is why they don't produce much bass. Stiffening up that would make improvements for sure. Giya G1 has a transient response and mid range clarity that is very very close to a good electrostatic but has massively more dynamic range and power handling. It really IS the only loudspeaker that can rival an electrostatic. Nautilus is 20 years old - check out Vivid Audio for the next and better generation.

[kopjesenseo]

@socksumi Bullshit! I heard many electrostatics and noon of my friends or i

like it. I agree: many eletrostatic speakers give's more detail then moving coil

designs but the nautilus is not an normal every day speaker end some people

must have poop in thear ears as the not hear how good it sounds!

[theprof291166]

@kopjesenseo Sorry - I know Nautilus and its designer. To say 'Quad is no match' is not true. Quad has peerless midrange. Nautilus was designed out of the desire to work as well as a Quad without its limitations. Quad IS good. Nautilus is better in many respects but Quad is still reference class. Nautilus will remove your trousers but a Quad won't. Vivid Audio GIYA will blow a Nautilus away in terms of power too. Same designer same concepts. Check out Laurence Dickie.

[theprof291166]

@socksumi The diaphrams on the new Vivid Audio Giya system have resolved that problem of metallic colouration. Break up on the new domes is 5 times higher that it is with Nautilus. Remember this is a 21 year old Loudspeaker. Laurence Dickie has spent the last two decades really working on these drivers. You should audition the GIYAs or any of the Vivid Audio speakers. Great thing is they cost half / quarter what a Nautilus does and only need an 2 channels of amplification.

[demarcos69]

Look like an alien but I know they sound like heaven...

[MrTORTOUGA]

60.000 Euroi =1 incint/1 Box......1m cable conect=10.000 E posible....!?;-)))

[Gioxtream]

English Please !

[mushroomhead0815]

uptodäitüsch :-D

[Bluemchenwiese1]

was ist ein lutschsprecher?

[danischraner]

schwizerdüütsch ;-)

[JasonUProductions]

@Bluemchenwiese1 lutschprecher, nicht lutschsprecher, taub?

[Elnufo]

Habenwill!! *lechz*