Speakers You'll NEVER Be Disappointed With

The S400 Color Signature Edition is one of the best (and most fun) speakers I've encountered.

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[GDASt]

Bought a pair of these used a few mos back from The Music Room as part of a trade-in. End-game for me and my smallish office. They sound great with my Schiit system.

[samidebs]

I purchased the S400 mkII 2 years ago I love them🎸

[RonGrift]

Cool configuration but still old school. Still in love with my Bowers & Wilkins 801 Matrix Series 2 from the early 90s. Still mint and sound amazing. Accurate and precise.

[Hiprascal]

I'm liking your videos. Enjoy your tone, style, production etc.
Currently I am considering the KEF R3 Meta as replacements for my Elac Uni-Fi Reference. In the indigo blue.
Listening to Rick Nelson, Little Feat, Saga, Wishbone Ash, City Boy, Jethro Tull, Yes....CD and vinyl records.
Cheers, keep up the good work!

[dennycote]

Passive radiators are 4th order alignments. They can play deeper but roll off much faster. Very Cool speaker. Found you by your AT60 vs. At60x vid. NICE!

[polderpeil]

I have these in blue and really like them. I have paired them with the Buchardt I150 amplifier. Very good match. The I150 has a digital preamp and I have my Parks Audio Waxwing connected via optical. Happy listener :-) Like your channel and attitude!

[fredlennon]

Reliving some 70's music. The criminally underrated BeBop Deluxe: Sunburst Finish and Live in the Air Age. Listening through Klipsch Heresy IVs. Raven Nighthawk integrated tube amp, Thorens TD 160 with Nagaoka MP200 cart. Very robust, dynamic and fun, but I am starting to feel I am missing a bit of detail through the Heresys. Might take a look at the Bucharts. Another great video Rick😊

[rofgabor]

they look way bigger than their measurements. I was always intrigued by them, sound like endgame speakers. I love that you recorded this episode with the speakers on the desk, I wish all audio reviews were done like this. It's simple and brilliant. I always (have to) browse for the part of the video where the product is shown. I have to say the looks is a bit strange (goofy), with the grills it appears Mickey Mouse have found his ears.
And I should add, Mads Buchardt is very responsive and kind, via emails, unlike most speaker companies.

[dimensionsofmusicD]

FIFO 🎉. You are one smooth operator 😉. I'll take 2 pairs.
I have the aforementioned model 5s too so these definitely would be on my short list otherwise. Well 👍 done. Cheers 🍻. Greg

[elbebe]

I have those Buchard S400 first edition. And end of the game for me. Mat did a great job and I am sure S400 MII should be better. Keep up the good job Sir.

[neilfisher]

I've been listening to some America, CSNY, and Clapton on my BlackIce tube amp through my Zu DWs. I'm pretty satisfied with my setup. It's always interesting to hear about other products, but at this point, it's all about just listening to the music.

[riccitone]

Great review. Another competing speaker that’s said to hit way above its price would be the Fritz Carbon 7 Mk II’s. Would love your impressions on those. Currently, Samara Joy on Spendor Classic 4/5’s 🙏🏼

[Reluctantaudiophile]

I’m gonna need a pair of these in red, bright Ferrari red!

[mindhead]

Nice Review. I run my s400 mk II with a Willsenton R8 tube amp and Orchard Audio Starkrimson Ultra w/ a DMP-A8 as a preamp. They sound excellent with both amps. The power from the Ultra really makes them sing. It takes the already great bass response of the s400 to a next level. In a small to medium sized room you probably don’t need a sub with the s400. In any case I highly recommend these speakers.

[WilliamSmart-gs]

Passive radiator on my Klipsch KG4’s. I’m torn between the KLH model 5, JBL L100 classic. Those look nice.

[sidesup]

Passive radiators started becoming popular in the 1970s. Polk used them in their great selling model 10 speakers, which put Polk on the map. Vandersteen, a few years later in the 1970s, used them in the model 2C, which to this day is the best selling high end speaker of all time, (the Advent loudspeaker was not expensive enough to be considered high end). The Vandersteen model 2 advertisements in the late 1970s/early 1980s advertised them as "Dimensional Purity." And that they were! Their price about $900 a pair was around the inflation adjusted equivelent of the $2, 700 price of the Buchardts today. The Vandersteen model 2 with it's passive radiator and its out of the box midrange and tweeter under the grill cloth, was rated as Class C but borderline Class B by Stereophile in their rankings. I heard the model 2's once with Beard tube electronics, (British I believe), and it was a match made in heaven; the Vandersteens could have passed for Class A speakers back then in many ways with the right equipment.

The tweeter waveguide with a shape like that, I first saw on a Radio Shack speaker, again from that same era (late 1970s). It was the Minimus model 11. It's smaller brother the Minimus 7, which had a smaller woofer, no tweeter waveguide, but also had a metal cabinet (smaller), could very well be the best selling under $100 speaker of all time.

I've been listening to a lot of 1970s music, A Trick Of The Tail by Genesis, Average White Band (their name was a joke), they were so way above average it isn't funny. Some Jeff Beck, Traffic, Michael Franks, American Beauty & In The Dark by The Grateful Dead. Brahms piano concerto #2 and Rachmaninov piano concerto #2 Johannes Brahms was a controversial personality, and after attending parties before leaving, would say "Now that I've offended everyone, I can leave." Boring people are even more offending to me.

[TheCollectorCave]

These seem great! I'm still rather new to vinyl and as I mature in this hobby I'd like to eventually land here.

Currently I'm running my Audio Technica TT to my Vizeo surround system via Bluetooth (which I'm sure is sacrilege to many), but until I make some rearrangements in my living space, bluetooth it is.

Currently my surround sound w/subwoofer actually sounds good to my ear and is loud enough so I can hear it on my back deck while I BBQ in the summer (about 30ft or so from speakers to back deck). I worry that speakers this size wont have high enough DBs for that. Do you think these speakers will reach that space with enough sound? They appear to be bigger than bookshelf speakers, but I'm just not sure!

Also, these are passive speakers, coreect? I do have a built in pre-amp, but again, this is a lot to fully understand being so new to all of this!

Thanks!

[BradyJohnson]

Nice video!
I always wanted to listen to these. That's surprising that they're 4ohm speakers with a sensitivity of 87! You definitely need an amp with some decent power for these speakers.
Question: are these good low-volume speakers or do they need to be louder to sound good?

[yttean]

Nice pair of speakers. According to some reviewers/users/owners, they are too polite.

[crazyprayingmantis]

Try to get your mits on some EPOS speakers