Most beautiful speakers in the world ?

[bumblebee657]

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Their design brings back childhood memories.

 

[Bleib]

Dali Epikore 11 ​

 

[Oddball]

Hey you do you, I'm still gonna dunk on the stuff posted here that looks like a literal toilet.

Keep on dunking man. Can't say that I did not enjoy dunking myself, but probably for different reasons.

 

[tlaing]

After years of veneer over MDF, multiple layers of varnish, made in China crap… Audel, designed and built in Italy. Wake up and smell the espresso. ️

 

[Magnus]

I always thought my Carver AL-III ribbon dipole speakers were very attractive looking. They're modified to use a custom made active crossover (Audio-X-Stream) and the foam wrap around the Ribbons is long gone. I painted the ribbons and metal panels black and put new Carver badges on the front I picked up on eBay (old ones were attached to the foam and not in great shape). They still sound great after 29 years (I bought them in the fall of 1995). They do need the ribbons tensioned ever so many years (actually doable without removing them, although I do own an extra if one goes bad and an extra 10" sub).

They play 26Hz-20kHz with strong 26Hz output (no sub needed for music, IMO). The ribbon picks up at 200Hz (was 125Hz with original passive crossovers, but there's an anomaly that sounds better removed by going to 200Hz and it's less stress on the ribbons. I've got two Carver TFM-35x amps (350W into the 4ohm load, which is seen as almost purely resistive with the active crossover.

The passive one was a fairly reactive and needed a fair amount of power (87dB efficiency). It's closer in practice to 90dB equivalent now with the easy load and with those two amps, I hit 115dB with pink noise, C weighted, using ear plugs).

The living room doubles as a little recording studio with Logic Pro on my MacBook Pro (I play both guitar and piano/synth as well as saxophone and sing as well so I can pretty much do a full album alone).

The Carver C5 preamp with available Sonic Holography (huge soundstage with it on) gives the turntable a true analog only path, although I've added an old Lexicon DC-1 Logic 7 processor with Klipsch side and rear surrounds for 6.1 Logic 7 playback in recent years (Logic 7 sounds shockingly good with stereo inputs considering the combination, but the Lexicon has a lot of options to blend it in better).

The Lexicon's output goes into a C5 input for the mains so it remains fully analog capable while the Lexicon handles the surround mode options, although the Lexicon can process the turntable into Logic 7 if desired, but I've recorded all my LPs to 24/96 with high-end click/pop removal so I tend to play them digital nowadays for clean playback every time, but I pull out my fully analog Dark Side of the Moon sometimes just for fun. I recorded it on the first play and it had not a single click or pop that play).

The picture was taken before the Lexicon was added so it's not visible in the rack.

 

[G|force]

K array
** crickets **

 

[Pearljam5000]

 

[G|force]

Every person wants this Wilson
Don't pretend you don't

 

[ObiWanKenobi]

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Every person wants this Wilson
Don't pretend you don't

Which one is Optimus Prime?

 

[G|force]

I know there are Wilson lovers here that don't speak up

 

[G|force]

 

[Pearljam5000]

 

[Magnus]

The most beautiful speaker footage ever.... Live at Pompeii. You can see where they got the idea for the exhaust blowers on the Delorean in Back To The Future....



Careful...Careful...Careful with that axe, Eugene.

 

[Magnus]

Take a drink every time La Sphere gets posted!

Going through this entire thread compressed into a couple of hours, there does seem to be a certain repetitive theme going on with certain brands that starts to feel more like an excuse to advertise.

 

[Bleib]

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Every person wants this Wilson
Don't pretend you don't

Looks like a nightmare thing from Dr Who or something
Lure the humans with music
*zap*

 

[sander]

Lately I have a lot of "deja vu"moments in this thread because I have the feeling that most loudspeakers pics that are posted lately have been posted before in this thread (I'm not going to search all 198 pages to proof I'm right)

Repetition could more easily be avoided if everyone wrote the brand and model name (if known) of the speakers in the pictures they post.
Then one can easily first search the thread to see if something is already in it before creating a new post.

 

[somebodyelse]

Repetition could more easily be avoided if everyone wrote the brand and model name (if known) of the speakers in the pictures they post.
Then one can easily first search the thread to see if something is already in it before creating a new post.

It also helps those late to the thread who start from the beginning and find pictures that are no longer available.

 

[gfinlays]

Looks like a nightmare thing from Dr Who or something
Lure the humans with music
*zap*

Kinda has that 1st generation Cybermen vibe going on.....

 

[Bleib]

Børresen M3 - 250.000 EUR​

 

[Mark617]

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Every person wants this Wilson
Don't pretend you don't

They look like slot machines. I have always found the Wilsons to be awfully looking.