Most beautiful speakers in the world ?

[Pearljam5000]

 

[ryanosaur]

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Another case of my old quote:
A lot of Baltic birch plywood died to make those!

Lovely craftsmanship, though.

 

[Count Arthur]

Another case of my old quote:
A lot of Baltic birch plywood died to make those!

Lovely craftsmanship, though.

I wonder if they make smaller speakers in, a similar fashion, out of the centres they cut out of the plywood sheets. Rather like a set of Russian dolls.

 

[Lekha]

These are certainly contenders.
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like that cone and that pinpoint. The cone surface area within the coil former would behave quite differently than the often-used "dust cap" producing high frequencies.

 

[Pearljam5000]

 

[Lekha]

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The amount of trouble people take to harness the "troublesome" back sound and direct it forward! The designer goes to such lengths to create channels inside the box to collect that sound and send it out through openings larger than the cone area itself.

 

[Titurel]

The amount of trouble people take to harness the "troublesome" back sound and direct it forward! The designer goes to such lengths to create channels inside the box to collect that sound and send it out through openings larger than the cone area itself.

I'm waiting for a speaker with an akrapovic exhaust.

 

[norman bates]

The infinity kappa 9’s are lovely.
I was blessed to see and hear them the last 2 weekends…

Remember they are 6’ tall !!!!!

Bass is deep, mid bass present, highs are there without calling attention to themselves (surprising), but I heard a lack of haaa on exhale.

Someone here measured a 8.5db dip near 5khz, that might be what I heard…….

 

[MattHooper]

At least they look far more interesting than 95% of the rectangular boxes.
And technically they are state of the art, including the latest calibration to the room and listening position. A loudspeaker that can make itself acoustically invisible through calculation.
I wouldn't spend 160,000 dollars on loudspeakers, but I have no doubt that they are worth it.

Don’t care. Ugly

 

[MattHooper]

DIY guy Troels Graveson has made some really nice speakers, especially this one which was inspired by the Magico Mini, though I like Troel’s stand design better.

Unfortunately, there aren’t great pictures of the speaker, though there is a YouTube video on the making of the speaker:

 

[Pearljam5000]

DIY guy Troels Graveson has made some really nice speakers, especially this one which was inspired by the Magico Mini, though I like Troel’s stand design better.

Unfortunately, there aren’t great pictures of the speaker, though there is a YouTube video on the making of the speaker:

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[Old_School_Brad]

@Pearljam5000 , I like the beautiful pictures, but could you kindly include the model in your posts as well?

 

[Pearljam5000]

@Pearljam5000 , I like the beautiful pictures, but could you kindly include the model in your posts as well?

Usually I'm just too lazy, but I'll try harder in the future

 

[Old_School_Brad]

The infinity kappa 9’s are lovely.
I was blessed to see and hear them the last 2 weekends…

Remember they are 6’ tall !!!!!

Bass is deep, mid bass present, highs are there without calling attention to themselves (surprising), but I heard a lack of haaa on exhale.

Someone here measured a 8.5db dip near 5khz, that might be what I heard…….

They sound magnificent with a bit of EQ, but I personally prefer the .1 and .2 models. They feel more well-rounded and come with fewer design compromises compared to the original Kappas. That's probably not what a Infinity purist would tell you though..

 

[Bleib]

Pretty cool

Q acoustics concept 300

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Monitor Audio Platinum 200 3G​

 

[Audionaut]

Fyne Audio F-500SP

Blumenhofer Tempesta Bookshelf

 

[Lekha]

AllB music LB-Helium Horn 500

I am not sure one can call it the most beautiful, but it sounds the most beautiful! Leonid Belebasov is the chief designer of those speaker drivers, particularly the sound diffuser cones. This company manufactures all the cones that go into their "boxes." An interesting fact is that the massive cone is not connected to any sound-correcting circuits and consists of three cones in one—the part nearest the front is for low frequencies, the rest for mids, and the sort of horn in the centre of the coil-former area is for high frequencies. There's one capacitor in the box, which is connected to ground but not to the sound cables. This interview was conducted in 2019 at RosHi-End. It is in Russian, but you can use subtitles. However, the Russians often speak in short form most of the time.

You can see the rest of their products after 23.45 minute. This is what they say about their speakers: The AllB-music Tower series floor-standing speakers are designed in the Old-School concept, featuring a strict, classic design without frills. The speaker system body has a regular rectangular shape and a medium height. On the sides of the body, there are vertical chamfers at an angle to reduce diffraction when the loudspeaker reproduces sound waves.

 

[Bleib]

 

[Lekha]

And even a stranger 3-way speaker, a square cone one, was exhibited for the first time two years ago. No sound correction at all. Not beautiful, but what sound!
No subtitles though.

 

[olegtern]

I am not sure one can call it the most beautiful

Not beautiful

Hardly anyone would consider that beautiful. But surely they have some other strengths. Some kind of killer feature? Certainly something unlike anything else in the world (so-called "analo-govnet"). Maybe they can bomb civilians with sound or something like that?