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Most beautiful speakers in the world ?

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These are mine. Unfortunately the varnish has browned over the years so they don't look as contrasty grain as when they were made.
 
test1223 said:
Have you heard this specific Acapella speaker the Hyperion? It sounds very good no deep horn sound like many other horn speakers.

Blumenhofer is essentially a nice looking good PA speaker with compression driver and PA Bass driver(s) and conventional crossover frequencies. On top their biggest speaker Gran Gioia MK 3 is way smaller. The Hyperion has a wide range midrange dome (3" I guess) driver at the special horn and 4 15" low resonance bass drivers. The whole speaker has many detail optimizations. I think you can hear the effort.

The biggest hOrns speaker is the Uniwersum MK 4 which is also way smaller. The midrange concept is more similar but I am skeptical if they offer a sound without the typical horn honk? Or like many others a better PA speaker sound? Without a doubt the bass and treble should have no chance in comparison with the Hyperion and I guess the midrange is also not on that level.

How comes you dismiss the Hyperion? I only hear praise form every side and I totally agree that they are very very good speakers.
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Nope,their biggest is DV-3.My best friend has it,I have mentioned it many times in the past here and at his config with the 3 woofers is 2 meters high with the declined horn.
Bigger than this Acapella overall in size.
Yes,I have heard all their speakers I think,the common denominator was always hot highs (even more than the typical B&W "showroom sound" ) and lean bass.They are a lot more PA-ish from mid and lower than Blumen to my ears.
 
Frank Dernie said:
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These are mine. Unfortunately the varnish has browned over the years so they don't look as contrasty grain as when they were made.
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Tune Audio Anima, what a treat.

I've heard one of their more conventional small towers, which was fun. If you care to say, what is the sound like, particularly the low end? Or if you have posted in another thread/elsewhere? I have occasional fantasies about their Pulse bass speaker.
 
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Sokel said:
Nope,their biggest is DV-3.My best friend has it,I have mentioned it many times in the past here and at his config with the 3 woofers is 2 meters high with the declined horn.
Bigger than this Acapella overall in size.
Yes,I have heard all their speakers I think,the common denominator was always hot highs (even more than the typical B&W "showroom sound" ) and lean bass.They are a lot more PA-ish from mid and lower than Blumen to my ears.
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Ah I missed the DV-3 it seems to be discontinued? Nice looking horn but still a compression driver...

From what you wrote you have only heard the older Acapellas which where developed by Alfred Rudolf, the newer ones are developed by Richard Rudolf his son and are quite a step forward. More balanced sound and more bass extension.
 
test1223 said:
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Ah I missed the DV-3 it seems to be discontinued? Nice looking horn but still a compression driver...

From what you wrote you have only heard the older Acapellas which where developed by Alfred Rudolf, the newer ones are developed by Richard Rudolf his son and are quite a step forward. More balanced sound and more bass extension.
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It's build to order,always was and you can choose the number of bass bins.
There's maybe truth about what you said about older ones,the last one I listened too was probably 15 years old.

I won't lie,they were impressive,they could go loud,etc.
But as a classical listener my focus is always at midrange-midbass and lower and the combination I mentioned made things sound unnatural with big works so after all these tries I since avoided them.
Interesting to know about their new balance,I will sure give them a try next time.

(even at this small,Uniwersum MK 4 is a work of art,being speakers is just a coincident! )
 
I’m curious about different peoples taste in the looks of loudspeakers.

Personally I always liked how, back in the days, craftsman would put detail into things that would otherwise seem mundane, and even when it came to loudspeakers, it was understood they would occupy part of the living space, essentially becoming part of the furniture, and so some care was taken to make consoles or loudspeakers something of an acceptable piece of furniture to put on a room.

Off the top of my head, perhaps these old Altec Lansing speakers are along those lines:


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Or the unique JBL paragon:

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Possibly its because speakers always ended up in my furnished living room (my default, listening room) I’ve always liked loudspeakers that were treated in someway with the care that they would be another piece of furniture in the room. For me that usually entails a warm would finish of some sort. And with some form of updated contemporary style.

The Thiel 2.7s that I own are one of my favourite examples of the type of aesthetic I’m going for - contemporary, somewhat subtle and reserved, not a lot of technology on display. Not looking too much like a piece of technology. I really don’t like gear that has a utilitarian or pro gear aesthetic.

Example:

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One of mine with an Ebony finish in my room room:

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So how about you folks?

Anyone else share this aesthetic of treating speakers somewhat like furniture and wanting a fine finish and the like?

Or do you prefer speakers to “ look like speakers” in a very technological sense? Exposed drivers? Pro aesthetic? An obvious piece of technology and engineering or whatever?
 
Axo1989 said:
Tune Audio Anima, what a treat.

I've heard one of their more conventional small towers, which was fun. If you care to say, what is the sound like, particularly the low end? Or if you have posted in another thread/elsewhere? I have occasional fantasies about their Pulse bass speaker.
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I was impressed enough to buy them when I first heard them and since they use the corner of the room to extend the bass horn to an extent meant I could get back the space taken up by large floorstanders positioned to minimise excitation of room modes.
As it happened I still (just) preferred the floor standers but listen to both.
The low end is better than those horn speakers that actually use a box subwoofer over a substantial portion of the fundamental music frequency range.
I have measured the frequency response at my listening position but haven't got the data on this computer. at 109dB/watt they are astonishingly efficient so no dynamic range compression on the big crescendi of orchestral music.
Edit, 6dB down on 40 Hz at 32Hz
 
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