Most beautiful speakers in the world ?

[EERecordist]

More the beauty of the listening room... Famous producer Rick Rubin has Wilson Audio speakers at home. He has been very successful, so he can have any speakers anyone would want. The space is also very not acoustically conditioned but maybe the view makes up for it?

Behind paywall

https://www.wsj.com/articles/music-producer-rick-rubins-malibu-oasis-1492523868

Not sure what the home theater system on the right is. His home studio has ATC SCM25A.

More home, more speakers:

Point Dume House — bonetti/kozerski architecture

Remodeling of a forty-year-old house in Point Dume, Malibu into a comfortable minimalist retreat for iconic record producer Rick Rubin and his family. © Photos by Martien Mulder

www.bonettikozerski.com

 

[Pearljam5000]

More the beauty of the listening room... Famous producer Rick Rubin has Wilson Audio speakers at home. He has been very successful, so he can have any speakers anyone would want. The space is also very not acoustically conditioned but maybe the view makes up for it?

Behind paywall

https://www.wsj.com/articles/music-producer-rick-rubins-malibu-oasis-1492523868

Not sure what the home theater system on the right is. His home studio has ATC SCM25A.

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More home, more speakers:

Point Dume House — bonetti/kozerski architecture

Remodeling of a forty-year-old house in Point Dume, Malibu into a comfortable minimalist retreat for iconic record producer Rick Rubin and his family. © Photos by Martien Mulder

www.bonettikozerski.com

I'm surprised he got such small speakers
But cool room in any case

 

[somebodyelse]

Famous producer Rick Rubin has Wilson Audio speakers at home. He has been very successful, so he can have any speakers anyone would want.

Given he produced Metallica's notoriously over-compressed and distorted (in a bad way) Death Magnetic, I won't be assuming audio quality figured in the speaker choice. It's got to be bad when your fans start doing their own remixes from the separate instrument tracks on Guitar Hero.

 

[tineared]

I'm surprised he got such small speakers
But cool room in any case

Cool room for looking
Terrible room for listening
Questionable room for sitting
Everyone has their own priorities

 

[GroeneLeeuw]

Given he produced Metallica's notoriously over-compressed and distorted (in a bad way) Death Magnetic, I won't be assuming audio quality figured in the speaker choice. It's got to be bad when your fans start doing their own remixes from the separate instrument tracks on Guitar Hero.

I´m not a fan of Rick Rubin, only a fan of some of the bands he produced.
But you´re right, for the most part, the music is (sometimes) good but the sound quality is atrocious, even when taking in consideration the "artistic choices" either Rick and/or the bands made.

 

[LEA-Ebenisterie]

Agreed with most of you about Rubin poor choices, Black Sabbath 13 was ok if I remember correctly, I need to re-listen to it to make further analysis. But yeah, never had much respect for his work either, light years behind Andrew Scheps work for example.

The Comparison of 8 mixes, of a modern metal track, not my thing at all, but Scheps kinda made it sound old-school for me and was my favourite, there's also Mike Exeter (Black Sabbath's Tony Iommi personal mix engineer who also mixed for Judas Priest and Orange Goblin for example) plus other modern stuff I don't like at all, and that video is so interesting to see/understand how professionals make choices.

 

[RexrothPigeon]

More the beauty of the listening room... Famous producer Rick Rubin has Wilson Audio speakers at home. He has been very successful, so he can have any speakers anyone would want. The space is also very not acoustically conditioned but maybe the view makes up for it?

he's 62 so his hearing is busted and he makes money faster than he can spend it--perfect target market for Wilson

 

[xanalog]

Someone asked a 'what if?' hypothetical to themselves...
His question involved a pair of these Edifier MR4s:

His answer does NOT involve a pair of B&W Nautilus:

An unimaginable and a creative *process unfolds, with a very beautiful end-result.
*30minute youtube link is here.

 

[Sal1950]

The guys at Volti Audio do some of the most beautiful veneer work I've ever seen. When I've viewed a few at shows they took my breath away.

 

[Mort]

Since the real title of this thread is 'Pictures of all the speakers in the world' I will enter this wall-mounted gem from an airport in Egypt.

 

[Sal1950]

Since the real title of this thread is 'Pictures of all the speakers in the world' I will enter this wall-mounted gem from an airport in Egypt.

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Mort, Just looking at your signature again I see you have a couple of great 5.1 multichannel rigs.
Any though to adding Atmos to either of them?

 

[Salt]

Since the real title of this thread is 'Pictures of all the speakers in the world' I will enter this wall-mounted gem from an airport in Egypt.

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Camouflaged Camera ?

 

[Mort]

Camouflaged Camera ?

A valid suggestion. There were too many to be that but yeah ...

 

[Mort]

Mort, Just looking at your signature again I see you have a couple of great 5.1 multichannel rigs.
Any though to adding Atmos to either of them?

Yes! I think I'll be an early purchaser of a tide16 and I'll go to 5.1.2 but I have to do a ceiling drywall install.

 

[Sal1950]

Yes! I think I'll be an early purchaser of a tide16 and I'll go to 5.1.2 but I have to do a ceiling drywall install.

Kool. If your S.O. is good with it, a on-ceiling install is a ton easier than in-ceiling.
There are currently a bunch of options along the line of my SVS Elevations.
I know Genelec also have a bunch of ceiling mount pieces available,
Steven Wilsons studio is setup like that.

 

[Pearljam5000]

 

[xanalog]

@Pearljam5000,
I could not even afford the pucks under those Rosso Fiorentino Pisa speaker's spikes!
They look as good as a $75k pair of speaker should, without being decadent.
Have you had a chance to audition them?

 

[Sal1950]

@Pearljam5000,
I could not even afford the pucks under those Rosso Fiorentino Pisa speaker's spikes!
They look as good as a $75k pair of speaker should, without being decadent.
Have you had a chance to audition them?

I can appreciate the quality of workmanship that is put into some of these High End speakers.
The fit and finish of the cabinets, herculean efforts at controlling cabinet resonance, and the custom built drivers etc are very costly to produce.
That said, I do wonder about the "point of diminishing returns" for speakers in general. Excluding any discussion of personal preference in reproduction (they all sound different) and taking accuracy to the source in a average sized listening room as the goal. At what point can something like a pair of $20k Revel F328Be really be surpassed? Or can even less money bring you within hand grenade distance. Using say the number of drivers as a rough equalizer, how much better could a pair of Magico M3 for $100k large sound. No doubt about the I think I'll start a new dedicated thread on the subject.

 

[Pearljam5000]

@Pearljam5000,

Have you had a chance to audition them?

No
And I can't afford them either

 

[xanalog]

The guys at Volti Audio do some of the most beautiful veneer work I've ever seen. When I've viewed a few at shows they took my breath away.

I probably should not air this, probably because you'll be more aware of it, when you look at beautiful veneers, in the future.
Notice in the speaker photos you showed that those 'split' veneers actually become a distraction and not visually 'smooth' for my personal tastes.

I guess, some may consider 'split' grains as artistic flair, but they detract from the natural continuous grains in wood (e.g. some MoFi veneers).