Most beautiful speakers in the world ?

[Mart68]

It's like bored cabinet maker meets f-117 meets Sith Lord meets Dark Crystal meets WTF?!. And for some reason I kinda like it.

Me too, shame that they literally cost a million quid. (Well, £950,000 anyway).

 

[MattHooper]

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No thanks:

I wouldn’t want to be staring at that creepy face

 

[Salt]

That one?:

 

[Arindal]

Avalon Acoustic Tesseract.

Darth Vader joined KKK?

 

[Lekha]

Simple, unnamed, hand made a long time ago

 

[olegtern]

Simonett - The Brutalist Speaker

 

[dualazmak]

Simonett - The Brutalist Speaker
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I do not know why, but the "form/shape/silhouette" of the speaker reminds me Japanese old post box;

 

[Lekha]

I do not know why, but the "form/shape/silhouette" of the speaker reminds me Japanese old post box;
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There's a lot to choose from...

 

[boxerfan88]

This thread doesn’t just contain the most beautiful speakers in the world. It now also contains the ugliest speakers in the world

 

[Lekha]

This thread doesn’t just contain the most beautiful speakers in the world. It now also contains the ugliest speakers in the world

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder!

 

[boxerfan88]

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder!

True that!

 

[Arindal]

"The Brutalist Speaker"

Brutalist = solid concrete enclosure?

 

[Pearljam5000]

Brutalist = solid concrete enclosure?

 

[Waxx]

Also from Japan (I think)
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The drivers look like some Philipine fullrange drivers i've seen. I don't remember the name, but they seems to be popular over there.

 

[Waxx]

They retail here at £1200 each which suggests the BOM cannot be more than £120 per speaker. The tweeters might retail at a grand but that's not what they cost Focal.

Focal makes both the drivers and the housings in house, so they got it way cheaper than you who needs to buy them (with some steps that take their profit in between).

 

[Mart68]

Focal makes both the drivers and the housings in house, so they got it way cheaper than you who needs to buy them (with some steps that take their profit in between).

I know.

If you refer back, the poster was suggesting that the retail cost of the drivers made the speaker exceptional value for money. I was making the point that the tweeters do not cost Focal anything like the retail price - which can be set at anything - and that's therefore not a useful indicator that speakers using them are great value for money.

Which doesn't mean they are not, of course.

 

[Pearljam5000]

 

[Pearljam5000]

 

[Behrelec 37]

1030a or 1031a covered in birch veneer. It looks like there's an old 1092a subwoofer underneath, which I had as a young boy.

 

[Pearljam5000]

1030a or 1031a covered in birch veneer. It looks like there's an old 1092a subwoofer underneath, which I had as a young boy.

That's the original veneer from Genelec