Most beautiful speakers in the world ?

[Audionaut]

via Stereophile with a description here. Interesting but not without some idiosyncracies. I'd like to hear them myself.

The ones pictured above are active

Test: Aktiver Standlautsprecher Manger MSMs1 - LowBeats

Wohl kaum ein anderer Lautsprecher in der HiFi-Welt zeigt mehr Eigenständigkeit als einer aus der Ma

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They have a very narrow sweet Spot, but when you're within it, I think they're the best speakers available in terms of natural sound reproduction.

I like the Mangers very much.

 

[Purité Audio]

Pretty poor in my opinion, and not just mine I took a pair of C1’s to phil Ward for review.

Manger Audio C1

Manger’s unique approach to driver design yields a monitor with exceptional time-domain performance — but it comes at a cost.

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Keith

 

[Arindal]

I would like to see the Spinorama for that waveguide.

It is a combination of a 3" ring radiator type of mid/high driver usable from approx 300Hz upwards, with a pretty flexible, surroundless/spiderless bending wave diaphragm which is heavily damped the further you get from the voicecoil former.

Polar plots show, as expected, nothing that would resemble a constant directivity, but rather a steep step between what can be considered bending-wave properties and what is basically a ringradiator behavior. From technical point they are far from perfect, but many people praise the localization.

 

[LEA-Ebenisterie]

The ones I designed for "La Maison du Haut Parleur" in Paris, France ?

 

[Audionaut]

T+A Solitaire S 530

 

[Blockader]

But do Strauss's monitors possess any special, outstanding, rare beauty?..
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I am a big fan of their brutalist/industrial look.

 

[Waxx]

A special thing is this custom WTW dipole made for a listening bar (Moriyama-San) in Toko, Japan:

All drivers are Japanese, with a Sony compression driver in the horn and TAD woofers. This is passive crossovered and driven by a 212 tube based custom DHT SE amp and is by many seen as the ultimate listening bar speaker in Japan since longtime. Below is a cabinet version of the same setup (not on picture). THe system is build by the owner of the bar in his own workshop. I never saw this or heared this in person, but the look alone of it (and the fact that you can't buy this, only listen to it with a cup of tea in that place) makes it fully legit for me...

 

[Waxx]

another picture of the place, where the dipole is under maintenance (no woofers installed) but with a better view of the cabinet version, the tube amp and the place

 

[Audionaut]

The ones I designed for "La Maison du Haut Parleur" in Paris, France ?

Now I can see the Speakers. I've built something similar before.

 

[Audionaut]

made for a listening bar (Moriyama-San) in Toko, Japan:

Have you ever been to a bar like that? I would love to visit one. I think the concept is great because it brings together people who love good music in one place.
Here in Germany, you either get background noise or very loud music in the usual discos or clubs.
When I listen to music at home, the only people who hear it are my wife, the dog, and the budgie.

 

[LEA-Ebenisterie]

Indeed that's quite similar !

Though the ones in photos are veneered with Swamp Oak (An oak that fell down between 1990 and 2000 years ago, got buried over time, and ate lots of carbon, that's why it's all black), and the sides of my cabinetry are totally curved, inside too obviously.

15"/38cm FluxMag Driver made especially for this speaker, and TAD TD-2002 compression driver in the horn.

 

[Audionaut]

15"/38cm FluxMag Driver made especially for this speaker, and TAD TD-2002 compression driver in the horn.

Very interesting.
I think your speakers are very well designed.
I built mine with a Chinese A&D 15" carbon bass and the BMS 4590 compression coaxial speaker.

 

[LEA-Ebenisterie]

Very interesting.
I think your speakers are very well designed.
I built mine with a Chinese A&D 15" carbon bass and the BMS 4590 compression coaxial speaker.

Thank you for your kind words, however, I only designed the visual part of this, chose to make the cabinet curved on the sides, adviced visuals to feature contrast in colors, with obviously the inner volume specified for the driver and down firing port - 200mm diameter and around 400mm long, and the face size that I did want to keep from the older version of it and hasn't changed.

"La Maison du Haut Parleur" did all the engineering, crossovers, measurments, etc... as it's their flagship DiY or non-DiY speaker since 1975, but has changed a lot since drivers did too, but the main idea remains.

 

[LEA-Ebenisterie]

Very interesting.
I think your speakers are very well designed.
I built mine with a Chinese A&D 15" carbon bass and the BMS 4590 compression coaxial speaker.

BTW I didn't knew any of the drivers you mentionned, seems to be a quite killer combination

 

[Waxx]

Have you ever been to a bar like that? I would love to visit one. I think the concept is great because it brings together people who love good music in one place.
Here in Germany, you either get background noise or very loud music in the usual discos or clubs.
When I listen to music at home, the only people who hear it are my wife, the dog, and the budgie.

I've been in a few in Europe, but those mostly don't go all the way like in here in Japan. Most have old Kiplish, Tannoy or JBL setups here and are more bar than listening space. But the concept is a great id, next to clubs and regular bars.

Here in Ghent, Belgium we got even a record shop (Music Mania 2, the second shop of a legendaric and old records shop) that doubles as bar that holds listening sessions. They are equiped with Kii Audio speakers and draw big and young crowds. They also do listening dj sets and small concerts. Their 1st shop is still operating and more stricktly a record shop, located next to "de Vooruit" a legendaric concert hall/culture centre on the other side of the city. The people behind it now (it was sold by the founders more than a decade ago) are older but still active dj's in the local nightlife who have a very broad musical taste, and who were prime customers in the original shop (founded in 1969). If you are ever in Ghent, certainly worth a visit.

 

[Pearljam5000]

New PMCs

 

[Mort]

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What did you do with the money?
What money?
The money I gave you for design school.

 

[Draki]

What did you do with the money?
What money?
The money I gave you for design school.

Spent on a honeybee farm.

 

[Tovarich007]

What did you do with the money?
What money?
The money I gave you for design school.

Probably very good big monitors, and very expensive too, but certainly not beautiful.
I know, colors and tastes are personal to some extent, but how can you find this beautiful ?

 

[AudioJester]

Probably very good big monitors, and very expensive too, but certainly not beautiful.
I know, colors and tastes are personal to some extent, but how can you find this beautiful ?

But it gets loud.....