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Not a functional speaker, a marble sculpture of a speaker by artist Nari Ward in the Taipei Fine Arts Museum.
“That’s a no from me, dog”
Yuck!
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“That’s a no from me, dog”
Yuck!
A model that could be worked on ... but that standard terminal...
Haha, I do have a pet hate of those things.
Actually those riser's were an experiment to determine if doing so would make any difference which it did but only very minimal. My floors are not concrete slab but have a crawl space underneath. Also to experiment with placement location - made it easier to move the speakers around which weigh in at 152 pounds each! It's a good thing my floors are scratch proof too!The veneer is beautiful! Be careful what you wipe it down with not to scratch that mile deep finish.
Is your listening chair so high that requires that tall riser base for the speakers?
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I’m just posting this one here I guess because I remember in the 90s, thinking that the Avalon speakers were particularly nice looking. (they don’t do much for me these days.)
But having seen this photo of the Avalon Eclipse from an old Stereophile review, I was fairly struck by the driver spacing!
Look at the gap between the tweeter and the mid/woofer!
I’m no speaker designer but am I wrong and thinking placing the drivers that far apart is sort of asking for trouble? At least intuitively it looks like you’d need a fair distance from the speaker in order for any chance of coherent sound?
But having seen this photo of the Avalon Eclipse from an old Stereophile review, I was fairly struck by the driver spacing!
Look at the gap between the tweeter and the mid/woofer!
I’m no speaker designer but am I wrong and thinking placing the drivers that far apart is sort of asking for trouble? At least intuitively it looks like you’d need a fair distance from the speaker in order for any chance of coherent sound?
The veneer looks great, and with the grille it looks really like venedian carnival, and of course Your're correct: the distance form tweater to midwoofer can not be corrected in any way ... but looks great, not?
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Stereophile measurements FWIW:
Avalon Eclipse loudspeaker Measurements | Stereophile.com
Sidebar 2: Measurements I use a mixture of nearfield, in-room, and quasi-anechoic FFT measurement techniques (using primarily DRA Labs' MLSSA system with a B&K 4006 microphone, but also an Audio Control Industrial SA-3050A 1/3-octave spectrum analyzer with its calibrated microphone) to...
At one single point, in distinct distance and angle, there will allways be a sweet spot ...Stereophile measurements FWIW:
Avalon Eclipse loudspeaker Measurements | Stereophile.com
Sidebar 2: Measurements I use a mixture of nearfield, in-room, and quasi-anechoic FFT measurement techniques (using primarily DRA Labs' MLSSA system with a B&K 4006 microphone, but also an Audio Control Industrial SA-3050A 1/3-octave spectrum analyzer with its calibrated microphone) to...www.stereophile.com
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Waxx
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This is a statue of a dub soundsystem stack, a quiet typical one, not ment to be used as hifi and not fit for home use as the bass will be mainly with the neighbours. These kind of stacks are used for big dances up to 1000 peaple with heavy bass and play in mono. They are not neutral at all but that is kind of the goal, a dub soundsytem has it's specific sound, and the music does not work on neutral pa systems. These are almost always custom build (sometimes with a pro builder, but build on order and customised). This is such a very classic (and old) stack from the legendaric (and still active) UK crew called "Channel One" (since 1979 under the Channel One name but going back to the late 1950's under the name Admiral Bailey, but the stack is from the mid 80's) and is a 5 way setup that need about 15kW in amps. The crew has 2 off those stacks . You can hear it each year on Nottinghill Carnival (and on many dub parties in Europe) each year as they got a fixed spot there since longtime. This tradition goes back to the late 1960's jamaican soundsystems like King Tubby's Home Hifi, Downbeat the Rulers, Tippatone, ... But the tradition of soundsystem (dj stacks) in Jamaica goes back to the 1940's, as the radio in Jamaican did not play the black music (at that time mento, calypso and rythem & Blues). Then they used modified Altec Lansing cinema systems.Not a functional speaker, a marble sculpture of a speaker by artist Nari Ward in the Taipei Fine Arts Museum.
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Audionaut
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Yes, that's pretty much the opposite of a time-aligned and abstractly coherent point source, which is what we usually try to achieve.
Fortunately, there are now many manufacturers who are trying to achieve a point source with many products, such as Genelec, Sigberg, KEF, Geithain, KS Audio, and, more recently, Palmer.
I have always been an advocate of point sources and coaxial speakers.
They have disadvantages (which can be minimized), but above all, they have an incredible number of advantages that, in my opinion, far outweigh the disadvantages.
Such Avalon speakers were probably a product of the zeitgeist, nice to look at—but with problematic dispersion characteristics.
If the tweeter is decoupled very late, for example at 3 kHz, a subjectively "airy, transparent" sound could have been achieved. In this case, the low-midrange driver would be more of a full-range driver with a super tweeter, since the range that is particularly important for perception, including human voices, mainly occurs in the range up to 3 kHz.
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And while we are on the subject of reggae sound systems, this is a relative new build (Axis Valv-A-Tron from Hudderfield, UK) of the old style of soundsystems before scoops were used (1940's to late 1960's). This was build in the early 00's and powered pure with high power tube amps (build by the owner himself, he is renown for it). The drivers are old fame woofers and mids and JBL compresion drivers in horn. He did tour Europe with it but age did make it more difficult for him, so now he's mainly playing in his hometown on a reduced set. This is fully custom build based on old plans.
Avalon, thats i brand i have not heard of for years.
They have their moments for sure !
Real BlacKkKlansman vibes from that one.
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They remind me of the alien Kosh's encounter suit in Babylon 5:
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Would make a cool chess set
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