16k € & the black and white tops are leather.
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Most beautiful speakers in the world ?
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Oh. Need to look at better pictures then. Looks like dipped chocolate on my phone..
Maybe not suitable for this forum thread but there is some interesting information on Davone's website about the design of the Reference 1:
The baffle edge behind the mid range driver is chamfered to prevent the cavity resonance of the speaker cut out. There are two internal Helmholtz absorbers. One to absorbs the standing wave between cabinet bottom and top and the other to absorb the bass reflex port resonance. The bass reflex port inlet is located in an area where sound pressure of the remaining internal resonances is low. Not only on the inside, but also at the outside. The opening at the top prevents the excitation of the listening room resonance between the floor and ceiling. This seemingly simple measure will be of great benefit in many listening rooms because this room resonance is often not well controlled. And last but not least we chose a corner-less design for the bass port with a large area of 30% of the woofer membrane to prevent port turbulence and to have a linear output also at high signal levels.
The baffle edge behind the mid range driver is chamfered to prevent the cavity resonance of the speaker cut out. There are two internal Helmholtz absorbers. One to absorbs the standing wave between cabinet bottom and top and the other to absorb the bass reflex port resonance. The bass reflex port inlet is located in an area where sound pressure of the remaining internal resonances is low. Not only on the inside, but also at the outside. The opening at the top prevents the excitation of the listening room resonance between the floor and ceiling. This seemingly simple measure will be of great benefit in many listening rooms because this room resonance is often not well controlled. And last but not least we chose a corner-less design for the bass port with a large area of 30% of the woofer membrane to prevent port turbulence and to have a linear output also at high signal levels.
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Cool looking speaker, and the design seems reasonably sensible. Their older, now seemingly discontinued Davone Grande also looked nice:
but didn't measure so well from what I've seen, which might be why it's no longer on their website.
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None of these exist. "Most beautiful speakers". Text to image AI from dezgo.com.
The above were generated by Stable Diffusion 2.1. Pretty interesting. Here's a Most Beautiful Integrated Amplifier....
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When I chose to render the same text in Vintedois Diffusion the following resulted..
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This is interesting. And a little hilarious. It highlights the different approaches, and source "learning" material that various IE image generation models employ. Vintedois seems to be aiming for the sci fi fantasy anime user. That's would seem to be much of what its model has digested from the web and learned from. Hence the more garish and fanciful. And the vaguely facial featured components and unmistakably perky "protuberances" on that last speaker?
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Those are so fascinating! Thanks.
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Love the colour selection:
And still not a color in there that I'd really want.
(For instance, Magico has a subtle bronze finish that I'd quite like).
Depends on the room decor but I prefer my matte Gray Blades
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Focal has much better colorsLove the colour selection:
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None of these exist. "Most beautiful speakers". Text to image AI from dezgo.com.
The above were generated by Stable Diffusion 2.1. Pretty interesting. Here's a Most Beautiful Integrated Amplifier....
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When I chose to render the same text in Vintedois Diffusion the following resulted..
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This is interesting. And a little hilarious. It highlights the different approaches, and source "learning" material that various IE image generation models employ. Vintedois seems to be aiming for the sci fi fantasy anime user. That's would seem to be much of what its model has digested from the web and learned from. Hence the more garish and fanciful. And the vaguely facial featured components and unmistakably perky "protuberances" on that last speaker?
Hilarious
OMG, I'm now at least momentarily addicted to that AI program!
For instance I'm currently designing a speaker base, as well as a volume knob for a remote control, so I can put in all sorts of combinations "black speaker base with gold streaks" or "brass volume knob, wood top" and it spits out these often beautiful renderings!
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They have an amazing eye for combining their wood finishes with the speaker baffle colors.
What these guys miss is the "as easy as possible" attitude. The visual design is as bad as it possibley might get. It is just pretentive, and that was it, full stop.
In case you know anything about speaker design, or music (Al Di Meola).
'Hope I didn't hurt you. Most probably the artifacts are prohibitely priced anyway ...
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By the way above are the colours of the first generation, below are the ones from the Blades Meta:Love the colour selection:
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Much more sensible colours imoBy the way above are the colours of the first generation, below are the ones from the Blades Meta:
How are you fixed for Blades? (a shaving commercial line). I think it was Gillette, maybe might have been Schick, I am not sure which. I liked Gillette's theme song, which was played during their commercials on televised boxing matches.
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AI generally, especially in LLMs like chatgpt and text to image models, is exploding right now. Every week now they offer up something astonishingly new, and/or deeply unsettling. I think the only people who are not actively discussing them right now have simply not met them yet. Maybe the amazement will wear off, or maybe not for quite a while.
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Did you post the photos in the wrong order because that blue thing is ghastly. Then again I like our Rivian:
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I hate to go off-topic, but I gotta ask, did you actually receive one? what was the order/receive lag?
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To my eyes, my DIY HiVi 3.1’s, complete with matching stands
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