audioBliss
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I recently joined the forum after seeing the amount of great content on here! There also seems to be quite the number of interesting individuals hanging around here I have been interested in audio all my life basically but the last 10 years or so I've really started to pursue audio nirvarna.
Since my speakers are quite rare even in Sweden I thought I'd give you some background.
My current setup consists of speakers designed by Ingvar Öhman who might be one of the most intelligent and interesting people I've ever met. He has a small company in Stockholm Sweden catered mainly to hardcore audiophiles called Ino Audio. He's also designed the speakers by Guru (and helped out with some Carlsson designs (I think)) which is basically commercial versions of his Ino Audio speakers(but with a few compromises).
All the drivers of his speakers are designed by him and then constructed by Scan Speak. The cabinets are designed by Ingvar and made by his personal carpenter. The finish can be whatever you like. I know one person who got his whole cabinet made by some rare stone from South America and another who got his in a Porsche white pearl car paint.
My current setup:
Front Speakers: Ino Audio i32s - it's a sealed speakers designed to be crossed over to multiple subwoofers. It has dual 8.8" drivers + tweeter.
Center Speaker: Ino Audio i16s - sealed, same drivers as i32s but less output, still extreme output though since it's designed to be crossed over to subs as well.
Surround speakers: Ino Audio a2 - I have six of these, two in parallel for the side surrounds and one for each back channel. I have never heard a surround speaker like this, on a good surround mix I'm in a complete sound bubble with astonishing realism. I never think about that the speakers are there I'm basically inside the movie. These are designed to be high Ohm so that you can connect up to three in parallel per surround channel(so up to 12 of these for the base layer). You place them at different heights(lower in the front of the room and gradually higher as you move further back, of course according to exact angles and heights that you calculate depending upon your room) and evenly distributed for the 300 degrees that the front sound stage doesn't cover.
Subwoofers: Ino Audio Infra Y-6(six Y subs with 12" long throw drivers). He sells both ported and sealed subs. He recommends the ported due to higher output per unit but he also sells sealed systems where the minimum about you can buy is six at a time. This is because or else there would be no point in them basically since you need really high output for the infra sound to be felt. The Y drivers are his biggest and nicest driver but I "only" got six of them. I got them mostly because I love the transient response of sealed subs but I do have enough output to shake my whole couch when I play a 7Hz test tone.
Here are three of them, you can also see some Sonic Design pads that all my speakers are standing on. Different pads for all speakers since they weigh differently. Isolates the speakers from the room. Excuse the mess..I just got a new room and need to rebuild it from scratch
Electronics:
Preamp/AVR: Arcam AVR390
Power amp for fronts: Emotiva XPA-2 Gen 2
Power amp for subs: Behringer EP4000
CD player/UHD player: Panasonic UB700
2-channel streamer/DAC: Allo Katana + Isolator 1.2 + SQ board (Roon/TIDAL/NAS)
Currently looking at upgrading my amps which are my weakest link along with the room of course. Ingvar also sells a really high end analog crossover filter to cross over the speakers to the subs but I currently use the Arcams inferior filter but Dirac Live 2.0 which I've found to be really useful under 300Hz. I've opted to put my money into the speakers and room so electronics are lacking behind. But I find it also quite nice to have this part of the equation left and with this website I think I can make some excellent choices The Katana was the first.
Since my speakers are quite rare even in Sweden I thought I'd give you some background.
My current setup consists of speakers designed by Ingvar Öhman who might be one of the most intelligent and interesting people I've ever met. He has a small company in Stockholm Sweden catered mainly to hardcore audiophiles called Ino Audio. He's also designed the speakers by Guru (and helped out with some Carlsson designs (I think)) which is basically commercial versions of his Ino Audio speakers(but with a few compromises).
All the drivers of his speakers are designed by him and then constructed by Scan Speak. The cabinets are designed by Ingvar and made by his personal carpenter. The finish can be whatever you like. I know one person who got his whole cabinet made by some rare stone from South America and another who got his in a Porsche white pearl car paint.
My current setup:
Front Speakers: Ino Audio i32s - it's a sealed speakers designed to be crossed over to multiple subwoofers. It has dual 8.8" drivers + tweeter.
Center Speaker: Ino Audio i16s - sealed, same drivers as i32s but less output, still extreme output though since it's designed to be crossed over to subs as well.
Surround speakers: Ino Audio a2 - I have six of these, two in parallel for the side surrounds and one for each back channel. I have never heard a surround speaker like this, on a good surround mix I'm in a complete sound bubble with astonishing realism. I never think about that the speakers are there I'm basically inside the movie. These are designed to be high Ohm so that you can connect up to three in parallel per surround channel(so up to 12 of these for the base layer). You place them at different heights(lower in the front of the room and gradually higher as you move further back, of course according to exact angles and heights that you calculate depending upon your room) and evenly distributed for the 300 degrees that the front sound stage doesn't cover.
Subwoofers: Ino Audio Infra Y-6(six Y subs with 12" long throw drivers). He sells both ported and sealed subs. He recommends the ported due to higher output per unit but he also sells sealed systems where the minimum about you can buy is six at a time. This is because or else there would be no point in them basically since you need really high output for the infra sound to be felt. The Y drivers are his biggest and nicest driver but I "only" got six of them. I got them mostly because I love the transient response of sealed subs but I do have enough output to shake my whole couch when I play a 7Hz test tone.
Here are three of them, you can also see some Sonic Design pads that all my speakers are standing on. Different pads for all speakers since they weigh differently. Isolates the speakers from the room. Excuse the mess..I just got a new room and need to rebuild it from scratch
Electronics:
Preamp/AVR: Arcam AVR390
Power amp for fronts: Emotiva XPA-2 Gen 2
Power amp for subs: Behringer EP4000
CD player/UHD player: Panasonic UB700
2-channel streamer/DAC: Allo Katana + Isolator 1.2 + SQ board (Roon/TIDAL/NAS)
Currently looking at upgrading my amps which are my weakest link along with the room of course. Ingvar also sells a really high end analog crossover filter to cross over the speakers to the subs but I currently use the Arcams inferior filter but Dirac Live 2.0 which I've found to be really useful under 300Hz. I've opted to put my money into the speakers and room so electronics are lacking behind. But I find it also quite nice to have this part of the equation left and with this website I think I can make some excellent choices The Katana was the first.
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