Could you post a photo of the "better, smooth" type? I'm not sure I understand the difference.
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These speakers from Lockwood (concentric driver) are kind of nice :
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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.
The book matched veneer looks very good. Pictures don't exactly present the depth and beauty of exotic wood that one gets to see when in person.
Woodworking experts can do a much better job of explaining.
If we have a veneer that needs to be applied to a 50mm-wide surface.
A 50cm-wide (1mm-thick) full-grain veneer would require a much larger tree (and probably equally large cost$: image foreground).
Or, you can just get-by with two 25cm-wide veneer strips; spliced side-side-by-side (butcher-block style: image background).
Else, you get a 2mm-thick (25cm-wide) veneer that is cut down the middle, so that the grains are matchy-matchy. (Previous photos)
I hope that makes sense.
If I am reading you correctly, you do not like book-matched veneer and would prefer to see veneer that is 1 continuous piece for each entire side?Woodworking experts can do a much better job of explaining.
If we have a veneer that needs to be applied to a 50mm-wide surface.
A 50cm-wide (1mm-thick) full-grain veneer would require a much larger tree (and probably equally large cost$: image foreground).
Or, you can just get-by with two 25cm-wide veneer strips; spliced side-side-by-side (butcher-block style: image background).
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Else, you get a 2mm-thick (25cm-wide) veneer that is cut down the middle, so that the grains are matchy-matchy. (Previous photos)
I hope that makes sense.
Expert, no. But I do appreciate what can be done by a skilled craftsman and some exciting veneer.You must be one of those:
Thank you.
One example is this Salk Song 3 BeAT with a Spalted Beech Veneer applied as a standard book match:
This is one of Salk's SS8 designs with a 4-way book matched Pepperwood Veneer:
And another Salk Song 3 BeAT with a book match Spalted Beech Baffle and 4-way book match Burl Walnut on the sides:
Everybody has their own taste. These are stunning to me.
I will agree with you though, I was not a fan of that earlier Speaker you commented on.
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Expert, no. But I do appreciate what can be done by a skilled craftsman and some exciting veneer.
One example is this Salk Song 3 BeAT with a Spalted Beech Veneer applied as a standard book match:
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This is one of Salk's SS8 designs with a 4-way book matched Pepperwood Veneer:
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And another Salk Song 3 BeAT with a book match Spalted Beech Baffle and 4-way book match Burl Walnut on the sides:
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Everybody has their own taste. These are stunning to me.
I will agree with you though, I was not a fan of that earlier Speaker you commented on.
The veneers on the Salk speakers are beautiful furniture quality finishes.
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Kaiser also have beautiful finishes
I wish I could've done something like those veneers on my Speakers, but cost and size were both prohibitive, with size jacking up potential cost A LOT! (The Phil3 bass cabinet alone is 14sq.ft. of veneer, finished... per cabinet!)
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I’ve only seen photos over the years, but they have always been among my favourite looking speakers, especially from their wood finishes.
They might be the very apex of audiophooley, although obviously there is fierce competition.
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I did my best to search, but could not find this Mini Wall of Sound / Le Petit Mur De Son on ASR yet.
Coscia Guitars in Tacoma, Washington makes reproductions of the Grateful Dead Wall of Sound individual full size speaker units, and 1/2 scale, 1/4, and 1/6 "Mini Wall of Sound," 7 so far.
He has sourced Grateful Dead stems which can be routed to sections of the Mini Wall of Sound.
Sadly, the Mini Wall of Sound is too big and wide for the Klippel!
The gentlemen also makes guitars.
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He fabricates his own mini-scale scaffolding.
I admire his obsession, and wish him the best finding customers. The truly serious would have 3 audio rooms at home, the professional control room - Hidley-style, the jewel equipment room, and the wall of sound room!
Coscia Guitars in Tacoma, Washington makes reproductions of the Grateful Dead Wall of Sound individual full size speaker units, and 1/2 scale, 1/4, and 1/6 "Mini Wall of Sound," 7 so far.
He has sourced Grateful Dead stems which can be routed to sections of the Mini Wall of Sound.
Sadly, the Mini Wall of Sound is too big and wide for the Klippel!
The gentlemen also makes guitars.
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Recreating the Grateful Dead's Wall of Sound as it was in 1974. Please follow and spread the word. The goal is to complete the current 1:2 scale wall and start the full scale wall in 2023.
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He fabricates his own mini-scale scaffolding.
I admire his obsession, and wish him the best finding customers. The truly serious would have 3 audio rooms at home, the professional control room - Hidley-style, the jewel equipment room, and the wall of sound room!
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Very interesting diffusion panel on the center wall. Usually I think of diffusers as block-y or like all the plaster ornamentation in classic concert halls. I wonder how it works and how it was made?
It's a shame none of the speakers I have auditioned and really liked have fancy high gloss wood veneers. Years ago about the closest I can recall to that was the Daedalus Ulysses, but they had such a narrow sweet spot that I'm guessing the directivity and/or frequency response was all over the place. The sound changed just moving your head. I believe that was actual wood finish and not a veneer. They looked stunning in person.
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Ruark speakers were super stylish with their woodwork and finishes.
It's a pity they stopped their classic hifi line to focus on small connected devices (always nice loolking and not bad anyway)
Oh yes, I get what you were talking about now.
The book matched panels are time consuming to do.
OTOH one solid piece of veneer would raise the price even more.
OTOH the bookmatching done on the pieces I posted and others here is an Art all it's own so ?
Beautiful woodwork takes my breath away, I really don't get piano black, but thats just MHO..
I do miss my old Chicago home with it's beautiful Oak woodwork everywhere.
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