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Most beautiful speakers in the world ?
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Yes, it’s a tough field for designers because the engineers were given free rein. From a tech enthusiast’s perspective, these are amazing masterpieces, but someone with a purely visual eye might think: “Oh my God, a bank robber who’s hidden his weapons has thrown a bedsheet over himself.”
April the 1st special editions only, or all year around? I cannot tell by looking which is true.
What's "special" about it?
Oh I see, he glued golf balls to the bass module. KOOL!
Yea but it's a purple shag 1970 style rug.
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Better than the average Genelec. But I can’t quite get there with the Genelec, no matter what colour.
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Looks like they are kissing back.................
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Yeah, maybe a bit too intimate.
Kind of reminds me of an old joke I heard from a comedian about eating things like cows tongue. He couldn’t understand how anybody could do it. “I don’t want to taste anything that could be tasting me back.”
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Those Joseph Crowe systems are inspired by old ones, but build more or less on measurements (and he publish them in his blog). He does not aim for the ASR utopia speakers altough, he makes speakers that sound in a certain way and asthetics are as important as measurments. it's custom build on order, hand build in Canada, based on science largely, but not fully neutral and it's expensive. That big setup costs about 37K€, and is passive.
I did hear another system from him a year ago in France, that sounded like a hifi version (wider bandwith, and flatter fr) of old Altec speakers, which is very good. It was a 15" woofer in an Onken style cabinet and a horn with CD with passive crossover at 700Hz. His speakers will never be the cleanest speakers that are pure high fidelity in the strict sense (= 100% true to the source). But that is not his goal i think. It's a niche speaker that has a public, and it's a good alternative over old Altec Lansing and co speakers that are way overpriced on the second hand market today.
He also supplies plans for diy builds, and sells his kind of tweeter horns to the general public also. He also does publish measurments of speaker drivers on his blog and is active on diyaudio.com since longtime.
I did hear another system from him a year ago in France, that sounded like a hifi version (wider bandwith, and flatter fr) of old Altec speakers, which is very good. It was a 15" woofer in an Onken style cabinet and a horn with CD with passive crossover at 700Hz. His speakers will never be the cleanest speakers that are pure high fidelity in the strict sense (= 100% true to the source). But that is not his goal i think. It's a niche speaker that has a public, and it's a good alternative over old Altec Lansing and co speakers that are way overpriced on the second hand market today.
He also supplies plans for diy builds, and sells his kind of tweeter horns to the general public also. He also does publish measurments of speaker drivers on his blog and is active on diyaudio.com since longtime.
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Whatever old speakers these are, this set up warms my heart. I would love to hear these things in this room:
Those are reproduction RCA "Ubangi" low frequency horns with wooden replicas of old Altec sectoral HF horns. While I personally wouldn't want to own them, I agree, they make the world a little better place to live in.
Here is another view of one of the speakers.
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Not a pig in the initial instance, so not the expression you were looking for.
I imagine you can buy them whatever day of the year you like. There are five new Atelier editions: I pictured the black Shadow and polychromatic Mirage some way upthread and @Pearljam5000 just posted the woody Monarch and gaudy Zenith, there's also a metal-only Titan. And if that's not quite what you were looking for, you can do bespoke. For a princely sum no doubt.
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Ok there's an Alchemy edition as well. I like the bronze mesh covers, but not the gold plating.
Beolab 90 Alchemy Edition
Experience the Beolab 90 Alchemy. A limited edition premium speaker with 24 karat gold plating, where bold Danish design meets scintillating sound
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Four regular (sub)bass units make up the bottom row is my guess. Maybe not even ported, the front panel circles are an unusual grill?
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The compression horn seems to be an Onken MS-200 Wood (Replica ?). I've heard lots of compression driver fans saying it's the best horn ever made, don't know if there are any measurments available :
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What can one say about this?
That it always comes down to the intended use and how well a speaker fits the space in which it is used.
I think there are enthusiasts who make such claims, because it is really an eyecatcher, but I doubt they are following ASR guidelines, because from a purely technical standpoint, there are now horns available that guarantee more uniform sound dispersion.
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Totally agreed, that's why i'd be curious to see measurments of those.
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