Pioneer andrew jones bookshelf 2 full#
Stereophile did a full write up on the Pioneer BS22's and gave them a passing grade as well as ran them through the ringer of measurements. My data is pretty shit below 1k, so I'm going to default to old faithful below that. This is on the tweeter axis, close windowed and we can see one issue here, that tweeter is spitting hot fire above 12k. Pulling the speakers further apart means playing with toe-in on the speakers as you move them apart to keep the If you want it bigger you are gonna need to move the speakers further apart. As for dispersion, these definitely project more energy forward with the big front baffle, as such they don't throw a giant stage near field. It's noticeable here, but it's not too bad. A thin midrange is one that makes boys sound a bit too much like girls, and can audibly shrink both I end up hiding from the tweeter, but if you go too far off axis the whole top end disappears. The waveguide's extreme loading makes it very harsh on the top along with a very narrowĭispersion of those frequencies. I would say that the flaws of this speaker are similar to those of the more expensive Audio Engine P4, but better and worse at the same time. They don't need a sub on the desktop, but if you plan on listening away from the desk a sub would be pretty useful. These play much louder with than the BS21's although the little woofers will probably pop pretty After about a month of listening.Ĭymbals are too sharp, the midrange is a bit thin, and they are boomy as well, but over all these are doing the job for the price. Sounds too much like headphones this close and toed in, so out pointed they go. I messed with toe-in, but the wave guide is like a death ray of cymbal energy and the imaging Vibrating garbage to bring the tweeter's up to ear height, and pull them out from the walls at least a foot to let the rear port work. I'm looking at these as desktop speakers for this review, if you want to hear my impression of how they sound when they are not directly in your face I'll cover that in my final thoughts. The back of the speaker is identical to the BS21's with acceptably nice speaker terminals and a port. The crossover for the tweeter, supposedly poly is better than Also note that you can see a poly capacitor on The surround is butyl rubber and is pretty stiff considering the size of the driver.ĭefinately a custom driver, looks pretty sharp with a really big magnet Nice touch and reminds me of the Scanspeak Illuminator's embossed paper cone I used on my main system. I'm guessing he was trying to spread out the cone resonance to make it less awful to deal with in the crossover. First time I've seen something like that. Woofer is some type of plastic with a grid pattern embossed on it. Tweeters with that kind of horn loading are usually screamers with silly high efficiency. The look is improved from the grill off of the BS21, but man it's still an odd proportioned speaker with it's little
Pioneer andrew jones bookshelf 2 drivers#
I guess you could try and cut a clear path through the plastic,īut it's best to just toss them in the trash if you want to get the most out of these speakers.īehind the grill we can see the fancy custom drivers hand crafted by a tiny clone army of Andrew Joneses. What the hell dude, the tweeter is supposed play high frequencies through the part that looks like a thick plastic chain link fence. I miss the fancy pioneer emblem that was on the BS21's but having a real grill that doesn't look like an iron curtain is a big improvement. Good for the speakers I review, but here goes. High expectations have never turned out very
No off the shelf parts at all is almost unheard of at this price range, so yet again expectations are set high. For the PioneerīS22 Jones was able to design the speaker drivers themselves to get the most out of the price point. You can see that over here if you are interested. As you may or may not know, I was very disappointed in the Pioneer BS21's that I reviewed. Pioneer SP-BS22-LR Bookshelf Loudspeakers
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