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Most beautiful speakers in the world ?

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Love the Marten designs
 
not necessarily beautiful but I just didn't know where to post it, I just found out that they exist and aren't cheap - 46k€ for a pair, kind of high for 2x13" woofers and no DSP. Flush mounted mains are rather niche thing at this point so it's nice to see anything new. There's also a smaller model https://www.focal.com/catalog/pro-audio/monitoring-speakers/utopia-main

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Yup. I appreciate a high-end speaker that looks like it is comprised of various high-quality materials, with a meticulous finish.
I have an aversion against casket sized speakers. There's the distracting size factor, but also the utter impossibility of optimal placing in a real world room (as evidenced in many of the pictures in this thread).
 
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These were my Soundfield Monitor 1s. They were beautiful to me, and I spent many a happy hour in front of them for a decade or so. They have since been rebuilt into the SAM 1V2s, exchanging the coax drivers from 5.25" KEF Uni-Qs to what they now have, the 6" Tang Band W6-2313s.

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These were my Soundfield Monitor 1s. They were beautiful to me, and I spent many a happy hour in front of them for a decade or so. They have since been rebuilt into the SAM 1V2s, exchanging the coax drivers from 5.25" KEF Uni-Qs to what they now have, the 6" Tang Band W6-2313s.

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It’s too bad Parts Express stopped selling those cabinets and spare baffles. That was an easy way for a DIYer to get a nice looking speaker without woodworking expertise.

Do you have measurements? The only problem with the KEF driver was, he couldn’t get them any more! I’d be surprised if an ersatz is better.

Also which woofer is that? Mine are the TangBand woofer variant. I think he started with a JBL car audio woofer and iterated from there.
 
Another DIY NickS project, originally idealized and started by DanP, the Portals:
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The inner curved baffles were 3d printed. Kinda had a very directional "audible smoke ring" polar response, and were not as exciting to hear as to look at. Nick said the xover "It whooped my ass!" in terms of difficulty. More or less had to be done or adjusted by various RTA measurements.

How are you gonna know how something sounds if you don't try it?
 
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