Most beautiful speakers in the world ?

[cavedriver]

Since we were talking about speakers with too many screws and being "busy", I saw this tuner for sale and just have to share that it is an unusually attractive conglmeration of switches and dials:

 

[Wolf]

Wow, Nixie tunes for the freq display! I have not seen that before.

 

[Pearljam5000]

 

[DMill]

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Wharfedale just won the speaker war.

 

[Deleted member 48726]

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Oh no, the rattling!

 

[MarkS]

I'm guessing that the instruction manual says "Consume all liquid contents before evaluating."

 

[oceansize]

Fyne Vintage 15. That's a 15" concentric driver with a claimed 97dB sensitivity and recommended for amps up to 400W RMS.

 

[Pearljam5000]

Fyne Vintage 15. That's a 15" concentric driver with a claimed 97dB sensitivity and recommended for amps up to 400W RMS.
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That's a fyne looking speaker

 

[Dismayed]

The most beautiful speakers are the ones that disappear when I close my eyes. There’s nothing better than the illusion that the musicians are in the room with me.

 

[thewas]

That's a fyne looking speaker

 

[sweetsounds]

The Gaia are great sounding, but not sure if I could have 2 Patricks in my living room

 

[Soniclife]

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Does it have a liquid midrange? Put some champagne in if you want the top end to sparkle.

 

[MattHooper]

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There's something mildly infuriating about that....

 

[Adi777]

Viking Acoustics. Sorry, Viking Acoustics is probably a dealer. The name of company is DC10audio.

 

[Vladimir Filevski]

Viking Acoustics. Sorry, Viking Acoustics is probably a dealer. The name of company is DC10audio.

May I remind you that the title of this thread is "Most beautiful speakers in the world"?

 

[Pearljam5000]

 

[frascati]

A "Most Beautiful" designation is always going to frustrate 10 percent of us. Its the nature of "taste".

Asking a random sampling of one hundred people which of the following vehicles is the more beautiful I'm pretty confident that 90 of them would say it's the second one

So make of that what you will. But I find a similar bias in the speaker designs I commonly find described as notably beautiful. I suspect, even before clicking on the link that I'm going to see more of the second value expressed than the first image above. How to make it even-more-beautiful? Add more bling! Chrome! Sculpted facets! Spaceship lenses.

 

[Adi777]

Kroma Atelier Mercedes with Purifi drivers.

 

[Axo1989]

A "Most Beautiful" designation is always going to frustrate 10 percent of us. Its the nature of "taste".

Asking a random sampling of one hundred people which of the following vehicles is the more beautiful I'm pretty confident that 90 of them would say it's the second one

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So make of that what you will. But I find a similar bias in the speaker designs I commonly find described as notably beautiful. I suspect, even before clicking on the link that I'm going to see more of the second value expressed than the first image above. How to make it even-more-beautiful? Add more bling! Chrome! Sculpted facets! Spaceship lenses.

I guess it's the 2020s equivalent of the tail fin arms race of the 1950/60s (in the US) but car styling has been weird lately. For some of us, less is more, but for more of us, more is.

 

[MattHooper]

I guess it's the 2020s equivalent of the tail fin arms race of the 1950/60s (in the US) but car styling has been weird lately. For some of us, less is more, but for more of us, more is.

This reminds me that I seem eternally behind the times on shoes.

I grew up when athletic shoes were fairly simple affairs, though could look neat enough.

And then...when? Late 80's? 90s?...the explosion of the whole athletic footwear as fashion thing? I've been left agog now for decades at how utterly gaudy and tacky (and seemingly cumbersome!) athletic shoes have become (and people rob other people for these things!). It seems shoes are now made to be seen from as far away as a lighthouse in the ocean , lest anyone not notice the shoes you bought. My son is in to shoes, like many of his friends, and he sounds like Frankenstein clomping around the house because they are so oversized (and he's already a big guy).