Zeppelin has just landed… (Patreon)

It’s the first time I have the chance to try out the B&W Zeppelin at home. I remember it since the Apple dock version nearly 20 years ago and always tried it in some stores or at Hi-fi expos but was never impressed already back then. I don’t even know which generation this is now, it’s not the Pro version though.

Funnily Bluetooth is buggy, output is very compressed when streamed over Bluetooth, I will shoot a quick demo video the next days before returning it.

Anyhow I did some recordings already and for this purpose I searched for a new location at home where I can record speakers and get consistent results as I am planning to start a new kind of speaker database which you will find on Joy’s channel in future. I tried various positions at home to achieve a sound which would be somehow convincing. It’s shocking how different the captured sound resulted despite same distance to the speakers and same height etc.

I found this position to give me the best results, it sounds as if the speakers were standing exactly in front of me, I get some peak at 44hz at this position but I compensate for this afterwards besides this lower boost helps to bring out the lower bass of the speakers in case they have some response here, other positions rather swallowed that range.

Of course I compared it to the UBoom X immediately and I was surprised that it didn’t suck against it… I mean the B&W is some audiophile 800$ speaker. So stay tuned for my upcoming posts…