Most beautiful speakers in the world ?

[test1223]

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Acapella Hyperion one of the best speakers on the planet but very expensive. And really good looking not like most of the other speakers here

 

[Purité Audio]

What’s ‘best’ about it?
Keith

 

[darakon]

... not sure, if they even sound that good. To me it sounds a bit obtrusive.

But for 241.000 € you have to make compromises.

 

[Purité Audio]

Exaggerating again only 214k , I remember someone took apart an earlier Acapella and it was using a very modest Dynaudio? driver.
Keith

 

[Ropeburn]

I was commenting on the horizontal storage. I don’t know if it’s harmful, but up it definitely slows down access.

20k "high end" record player with 30 records << scruffy old DJ turntables with Shure M44-7 and "club sound" (=muffled) champagne anodised Vestax mixer and 1000 Techno, electro and Drum'n'Bass records.

I guarantee the latter is providing way more fun, despite sounding vastly inferior by technical standards.

 

[Oddball]

In the old days the richest person in the village used to burn a part of their crops. I guess the intention was to show economic power and mildly contribute to overall supply demand equation.

Nowadays, we just burn the currency I guess, without necessarily any positive social effect.

 

[test1223]

What’s ‘best’ about it?
Keith

You have to listen to these speakers. It is an example that a certain level can only be achieved with very expensive big speakers and a lot of effort.

It provides 4 x 15" bass drivers which form a cylinder wave in the low frequencies which interact better with almost all room acoustics and provide very clean loud bass. The mids are very neutral sounding they don't use compression drivers on the horn. The high frequencies is a plasma tweeter. At the last high end it was claimed to have the best sound there.

, I remember someone took apart an earlier Acapella and it was using a very modest Dynaudio? driver.

They modify almost everything they use and or have thier own specification for the manufacturer. The older models aren't that good compared to the newer ones.

 

[Purité Audio]

I have heard them they are at the Munich ‘De-Luxe’ show every year, ‘cylinder’ wave?
That interacts better with the room…
Best sound in show… any measurements ?
Keith

 

[test1223]

I have heard them they are at the Munich ‘De-Luxe’ show every year, ‘cylinder’ wave?
That interacts better with the room…
Best sound in show… any measurements ?
Keith

Yes like a line array the speaker is about 2.4m high so from the floor to the ceiling in a standard room. You have less floor and ceiling reflections and a better behavior compared to a point source like a standard speaker.

As far as I know there aren't any published measurements.

 

[test1223]

... not sure, if they even sound that good. To me it sounds a bit obtrusive.

But for 241.000 € you have to make compromises.

Oh my judgement from a video which is recorded about 1m away from a speaker which needs about 3m to 5m listening distance since it is very big...

 

[cavedriver]

Another vinylphile with a very expensive rig and what looks like 25 or 30 LP's. LOL

haha, hopefully that's just his "I'm in the middle of listening to these" piles and not his collection!

 

[Archguy]

Acapella Hyperion one of the best speakers on the planet but very expensive. And really good looking not like most of the other speakers here

A lot of speakers in this thread surprise me.
I'll just leave it at that.

 

[Archguy]

To be fair, I'll add one of my own favorites. The Rockport Avior. But I have to wonder: is my perception of its appearance influenced by its price, or reputation?
I've never heard them, and the six-figure speakers I have heard weren't proportionally impressive.

 

[Angsty]

To be fair, I'll add one of my own favorites. The Rockport Avior. But I have to wonder: is my perception of its appearance influenced by its price, or reputation?
I've never heard them, and the six-figure speakers I have heard weren't proportionally impressive.

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Mighty purty!

 

[Laagman]

Back in the day I was always told that horizontal storage was not a good thing for resisting warpage.
That LP's should be stored vertically with just a snug amount of side pressure.
I can't really say for sure if there's any truth to it ???

Looks to me as the center shelf is adjustable and might even accommodate a second level of vertical LPs, or
at least some vertical CD-BD storage?
Of course you have to own more than 3 LPs for that.

Meanwhile record store in my town

 

[Axo1989]

The (marble?) cable lifters scratching the nice wood floor maybe?

Good point. Felt layer needed, definitely.

Or a zip line for (electron enhancing) critters!

Nice. We already have plankton in service for DAC sonics, there must be a suitable genera for those amplified analog waveforms. So many untapped possibilities for the high end cognoscenti.

 

[Angsty]

Another vinylphile with a very expensive rig and what looks like 25 or 30 LP's. LOL

Your rig should cost at least 20x your vinyl collection! Of which, the cables should be nominally 20%!

 

[Pearljam5000]

 

[norman bates]

why is the tweeter slid back ?

 

[Ktacos]

Who doesn't want a speaker that says 777 hypercar on it?

Well me, and probably most people. Good lord what an ugly speaker.