To quote a recent Washington Post article:
“Hi-fi is extremely subjective.”
“Hi-fi is extremely subjective.”
That has to be the worst possible color you could choose for that shape, but that's what they chose to promote it with, wild!
Yes, agreed, hence my comment "I need to reduce my snarkiness"!!!
I didn't realize you could go cheaper configuration.
But then I think, $3.5k - $5k for a small two-way!
All that being said, I am eager to see the measurements. It looks well thought out and documented, and for many people will be a fun and the whole enterprise encourages measurement and ability to adjust. Perhaps if this is sold to audiophile community, the customer will get introduced to many of the methods we talk about here, and can learn about what is actually making good sound in their room. And compared to the other tiny 2-way that is being discussed, this seems like a bargain and potentially good sounding!
The Cain & Cain Abby resembles what many single driver aficionados call a "Voigt Pipe".
Scott Lindgren who is active on diyAudio and has done many speaker cabinets designs using transmission line and back-loaded horn alignments (in addition to the more common bass reflex), refers to this as a "Mass Loaded Voigt". If I am not wrong he was friends with the late Terry Cain.
Aries Cerat - Aurora speaker
View attachment 342607 If they sound as good as they are ugly then they should sound phenomenal!
Now having a wall of sound in your living room like that would be cool!Yep, really gross.Or ugly cool weird futuristic space like look.
Also weighs quite a bit:
Weight: 1100 lbs. each (499 kg)
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If you have the opportunity, you might as well consider building a lot of speakers into the wall. Put something acoustically transparent in front of them so you don't have to see the speaker elements/drivers. Should you go all out with something like that, so why not try the wall of sound?
This many might be overkill for home hi-fi, but still:
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The 'lil" monster had 586 JBL speakers and 54 Electrovoice tweeters powered by 48 McIntosh MC-2300 Amps (48 × 600 = 28,800 watts of continuous (RMS) power!!! A massive wall of speaker arrays set behind the musicians, which they themselves controlled without a front of house mixer. It did not need any delay towers to reach a distance of half a mile from the stage without degradation was and still is the coolest ever sound system ever projected.
How accurate the sound image is with a lot of drivers (plus a lot of other problems, challenges with just slapping in a lot of drivers like in the picture) is a question to think about, but there is probably no one who doesn't believe that it sounds like a lot.
Before and after room correction.Limited editions Elac subs, nice:
Elac MicroSub 2010 BT / Rubik’s Cube edition + Art Edition
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Before and after room correction.
But it's not good for you.Should I worry that I like the neo-Mondrian more?
Should I worry that I like the neo-Mondrian more?
oh, my -- what goes around (no pun intended) comes around.nothing shocking, but together with those cabinet shapes, umm..
Visaton FONTANELLA SAT
Well, not the end of the story, while I searched for larger picture, I found some of their customer made a mod and posted on their website's forum.
Fontanella Sat light im "Weinfässchen" / cheers pirates..
[satellites + sub]
Reminds me of John Watkinsons Legend loudspeakers, that even Siegfried Linkwitz thought were going to be the future:
Panasonic beat 'em to it ca. 1970 with the Tootle Loop. I will check spelling anon.
Panasonic beat 'em to it ca. 1970 with the Tootle Loop. I will check spelling anon.