The engineering side of me is aghast at some of these cabinets which contribute absolutely nothing to function, and in many cases, may degrade sound quality. Form should follow function. The rest of it is subjective art.
What’s nice is that you can also buy subjective art. Subjective art that plays well can be just as satisfying as functional art that is superior but perhaps less attractive.
Harman had done a lot of research to show that you need multiple subwoofers to get the best sound field and they are proponents of large 18” subs
But many people still like subwoofers to be more attractive.
Or perhaps, more
I really like them. I wonder how they would fare in Amir or Eric's measurements. I am also very curious if it would be possible to create a DIY project in the style of these JBLs ...
The cabinets alone are $6K USD from one of the surplus resellers, not to mention freight shipping costs. There is a lot that can be done to improve the system with digital crossovers/EQ, for example. But with cabinets that price, I feel like a pair of used DD65000/66000/67000’s would be cheaper than trying to DIY with a new old stock cabinet
Here is the K2 S9900 which is a close cousin to the Everest
pierreaubert.github.io
The on axis FR isn’t that flat for the Everest
But what isn’t shown is the very low THD of those transducers
...Submitted by Giskard
www.audioheritage.org
Or the fact that it is only designed to go down to 45Hz anechoic despite dual 15” woofers and a ported design!
This lets them achieve 96 dB/2.83V @ 1m and is designed to handle 500W RMS! When you do the math, it seems silly if you wanted to protect your hearing but then you realize that the target owner who has the Everest over any other similarly priced speaker probably also has a room grand enough to benefit from that type of power/efficiency. Alternatively, this is also a speaker that can pair nicely with something like the Topping LA90 and not run out of power.