Most beautiful speakers in the world ?

[MarkS]

The depth of the RM50 cabinet 24" (?)

19"

VMPS :: Ribbon loudspeakers & subwoofers

affordable high end ribbon loudspeakers and home theater

pointillistic.com

 

[Pearljam5000]

 

[OldHvyMec]

19"

LOL, it has been close to 14 years since I saw and heard them.

Man, they were a great-sounding speaker. Actually, the top 5, I've ever heard. They recorded a small assembly of musicians at the show in Vegas one year and then played it back a few hours later through those speakers. The results were wonderful. I believe the designer (Brian Cheney) was one of the musicians (not sure on that), but he was definitely one of the people who set up the recording and did the post-production.

I'll say this: if you didn't want to use subs with most of his speakers, you didn't have to. They could really put out the sub/bass, and if you really wanted to BOOM, BOOM, he had a few different sub designs to choose from, including columns.

All of those full-height columns were heavy, too. My Elixirs started at 375 lbs. each. Some were over 450 lbs. with a @Corian front baffle.

Shame the HiFi world lost the man and the company. I'd doubt I'll ever sell/give away the VMPS speakers I've collected. I sure can't say that about the other 40+ pairs I tried out through the years, not to mention the ones I made and sold. I still have a couple of sets of empty RM30 cabinets. One pair still in the box if I remember correctly.
I have two working set of those and one set with under 500 hours total on them. I paid 1,100.00 for that pair. Beautiful speakers and the latest cabinet material with wraps!

I'd take them over every new speaker made especially for the money. The wife sure like them. I think it's because she can actually move them. LOL

Regards

 

[MarkS]

I once had VMPS Tower II SE speakers. Brian demo'd them for me at his house, a fun experience. But I could never get the powerful bass to work well in my room & eventually replaced them with something more manageably sized.

 

[Pearljam5000]

 

[Flaesh]

The same NBS, famous for its audiophile cables. Unfortunately, they haven't released any new speakers for many years.

Choosing the right NBS Cable

 

[meracus]

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Which Genelec is this

 

[OldHvyMec]

But I could never get the powerful bass to work well in my room & eventually replaced them with something more manageably sized.

LOL a lot of people never got the hang of "PUTTY PINCHING"

It was pretty simple, really. You add mass to the passive radiator (after you get the placement right for the mids and highs) until you get "BOOM" in the room. If you already have "BOOM" in the room, then you remove mass (or putty) a thumbnail at a time, until it goes away. So you need to pick a passage of music that causes the issue and play it over and over. As time goes on, and the passive radiator wears, the boom will come back; a simple thumbnail or two every two years or so will fix it.

The trick was the compliance with his PRs, they were VERY sensitive. Modern PRs are a lot different; it takes up to an ounce of putty now to get the same results. I still add and remove putty on all my PR built subs. The last ounce or two is added to add boom and then removed until the boom goes away (per room, cabling, and amp). The difference is that it takes a lot more putty now with HE, high SPL (PRs) bass systems. Now, most people would rather use DSP vs mechanical tuning. I prefer to use mechanical first and then fine-tune the upper bass regions with PEQ/GEQ for dips and Helmholtz adjustable resonators for the peaks.

So your room probably got boomy after Brian tuned his speakers to your room (they loosened up), all you had to do was pinch a little putty, so to speak. Every room is different, along with the amp and cable combination used.

It was also the reason he added L-Pads for the mids and highs; every room and wall treatment is different. His tweeter and mid systems were HOT for a reason. They were for untreated and treated rooms alike. He was WAY ahead of the speaker game compared to some of his competitors. GR was one of his biggest critics, but then Danny didn't seem to understand that every pair of speakers was SPL matched to each other within .5% on the mids and highs for a reason. Every XO in every speaker was tuned to that pair of drivers and XO components. They were all SPL matched.

Heck, there is 5% SPL difference on most 20-50K speakers today. They all depend on DSP to fix all the mismatched driver and passive XO components.

I'll stick with my old speakers and speaker build concepts; they work very well for me. BUT I do like GR's servo sub systems, especially for playing records.
The rest of his speaker kits, not so much.

BTW, I still have a pair of Tower II SE (Rs). Serious BASS for sure.

Regards

 

[Pearljam5000]

Which Genelec is this

8380

 

[meracus]

8380

Looks like a beast … I like ! I have been pestering people here for a large jbl … I would do this in a heartbeat … then I checked the potential pricing … yeah …. No

 

[Doenerkunde]

Xiaomi Sound 2 Max

 

[Salt]

Xiaomi Sound 2 Max

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A loudspeaker with an integrated microphone into the loudspeaker for "room correction"

 

[xanalog]

I would say - put the veil. Sometimes this is exactly what needed.

I would add - put back the speaker grill too. Ultimate combo in veilage!

 

[Flaesh]

Xiaomi Sound 2 Max

The girl seems rather sad. Is the speaker not sounding right?

 

[OldHvyMec]

The girl seems rather sad. Is the speaker not sounding right?

Her paycheck bounced!

Regards

 

[xanalog]

Well, not sure if they are beautiful or not, but certainly interesting. 4x 18” drivers per speaker

Symphony speaker system - Siltech

www.siltechcables.com

they're doing some creative outside-the-box-thinking, though I can't figure out exactly what it is.

It is an OOB [OutOfBox] exercise for an IALC [Immersive Audio Lounge Chair] design.

^^Another OOB design-exercise for the study?

^^No! It is not a bong!

 

[ryanosaur]

^^No! It is not a bong!

Too bad. It should be!

 

[MarkS]

The girl seems rather sad. Is the speaker not sounding right?

"My boyfriend is making me listen to his new speakers and I have to pretend that they sound so much better than the old ones ... maybe it's time to dump him ..."

 

[MattHooper]

I find the Brodmann Acoustics loudspeaker look and designed to be somewhat intriguing.
Looks like a nice collection of high finishes and materials.

Apparently, the designer also makes pianos and the speaker employees a “Horn Resonator” which I believe are the black side slits on the speaker:

Description from a stereotimes review:

“The Horn Resonator employs a physical effect that can be described as the “door slit effect.” Frequency response directly correlates to how much the door slit is opened or closed. As the gap recedes, the frequencies reduce to a point where only the lowest propagate through the slit to form a new spherical wavefront into the room. The converse, however, is also true in that higher frequencies increase as the door slit opens. The net result is that the door slit functions as a low-pass filter, with the crossover frequency defined by the door slit gap (dimension). The advantage over bass reflex systems is that the Horn Resonator linearly improves the bass instead of creating a single resonance peak at a defined frequency with corresponding roll-off.”

The design went pretty Trumpian for the well healed crowd had at audio show a while back (I remember that room getting plenty of really good notices);

This is one of those designs that I’d really like to hear for myself. I like hearing idiosyncratic speaker designs. While they often don’t sound good on everything, sometimes they do certain aspects of sound in a really compelling manner IMO.

 

[MarkS]

My ears hurt just from thinking about the vertical lobing that those spaced tweeters are gonna produce ...