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Most beautiful speakers in the world ?

MattHooper

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I guess it's the 2020s equivalent of the tail fin arms race of the 1950/60s (in the US) but car styling has been weird lately. For some of us, less is more, but for more of us, more is.

This reminds me that I seem eternally behind the times on shoes.

I grew up when athletic shoes were fairly simple affairs, though could look neat enough.

And then...when? Late 80's? 90s?...the explosion of the whole athletic footwear as fashion thing? I've been left agog now for decades at how utterly gaudy and tacky (and seemingly cumbersome!) athletic shoes have become (and people rob other people for these things!). It seems shoes are now made to be seen from as far away as a lighthouse in the ocean , lest anyone not notice the shoes you bought. My son is in to shoes, like many of his friends, and he sounds like Frankenstein clomping around the house because they are so oversized (and he's already a big guy).



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This reminds me that I seem eternally behind the times on shoes.

I grew up when athletic shoes were fairly simple affairs, though could look neat enough.

And then...when? Late 80's? 90s?...the explosion of the whole athletic footwear as fashion thing? I've been left agog now for decades at how utterly gaudy and tacky (and seemingly cumbersome!) athletic shoes have become (and people rob other people for these things!). It seems shoes are now made to be seen from as far away as a lighthouse in the ocean , lest anyone not notice the shoes you bought. My son is in to shoes, like many of his friends, and he sounds like Frankenstein clomping around the house because they are so oversized (and he's already a big guy).



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No idea how/why this happened either. But my taste leans black/goth so I'd spend more time thinking which Doc Martens to get. The closest I'd get to sporty shoes would be a pair of Vans, or similar.

*1460 smooth, of course, after that you can get fancy
 

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None of these exist. "Most beautiful speakers". Text to image AI from dezgo.com.

The above were generated by Stable Diffusion 2.1. Pretty interesting. Here's a Most Beautiful Integrated Amplifier....

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When I chose to render the same text in Vintedois Diffusion the following resulted..
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This is interesting. And a little hilarious. It highlights the different approaches, and source "learning" material that various IE image generation models employ. Vintedois seems to be aiming for the sci fi fantasy anime user. That's would seem to be much of what its model has digested from the web and learned from. Hence the more garish and fanciful. And the vaguely facial featured components and unmistakably perky "protuberances" on that last speaker?

Hilarious
 

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mhardy6647

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Wow, Nixie tunes for the freq display! I have not seen that before.
It was a thing in the early days of numeric/digital readouts.
Hervic/SAE is one well known example.
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HH Scott did an early card programmable tuner with Nixies (Scott 433)
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There were (EDIT: I think!) a few others, but those two are top-of-mind (besides the aforementioned ReVox). :)
 

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My short review of the said speakers:
They have nice full-bodied sound with a fairly good balance between fruitiness and tannins , but I have to confess that after a longer listening session they can be a bit fatiguing...
 

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This was released just recently. Davone Reference One. Something about wide ovoid baffle seems very elegant to me, seems like this could measure very well aswell.

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