Most beautiful speakers in the world ?

[MKR]

Avantgarde Zeros, tried them here after their release in Munich, two models active and semi-active.
Keith

Thanks … and your listening impressions?

 

[Purité Audio]

They didn’t pass muster.

 

[Pearljam5000]

Dynaudio Consequence

 

[AdamG]

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Did someone not understand the mounting instructions? Might work out if you lay flat on the floor! Otherwise?

 

[Rednaxela]

I think I know why they got that model name.

 

[Rednaxela]

Plural would have been even better.

 

[Hugo9000]

Odd how the term "piss-elegant" just popped into my head. Haven't heard it used in over 30 years, I wonder what could have prompted it. LOL

Spoiler: Hmm, perhaps it was the photos in this post! :D

https://www.audiosciencereview.com/...akers-in-the-world.17178/page-71#post-1414985


Or countless other pics in this thread, to be honest hahaha!

 

[Ra1zel]

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If you buy this you have to live with consequences

 

[Dan]

They didn’t pass muster.

I love mine but I'd like to hear the D&D 8c. Impossible in US unfortunately.

 

[AdamG]

If you buy this you have to live with consequences

Bouncing those 3 tweeters off the floor is going to be fun times.

 

[Ra1zel]

Bouncing those 3 tweeters off the floor is going to be fun times.

Maybe the trick is to listen upside down?

 

[thewas]

A current German DIY loudspeaker magazine has measurents of them. As expected from a 5-way passive loudspeaker they aren't great, luckily mainly horizontal angles were measured

and just two small vertical angles which are enough though to show the expected problems of such a concept

What surprised me though is how many resonances the decay waterfall shows, possibly resulting from the too shallow crossover slopes of Dynaudio of that era.

Source and more: https://www.hifitest.de/test/vintage-hifi/dynaudio-consequence-mk-ii-22022

 

[Ra1zel]

A current German DIY loudspeaker magazine has measurents of them. As expected from a 5-way passive loudspeaker they aren't great, luckily mainly horizontal angles were measured
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and just two small vertical angles which are enough though to show the expected problems of such a concept
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What surprised me though is how many resonances the decay waterfall shows, possibly resulting from the too shallow crossover slopes of Dynaudio of that era.
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Source and more: https://www.hifitest.de/test/vintage-hifi/dynaudio-consequence-mk-ii-22022

Horrid, I wonder how much power is eaten by the XO

 

[Pearljam5000]

The ultimate bling speakers

 

[Sal1950]

Genelec the ones on a nice pedestal unconnected
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Or

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I know which I'd rather admire for purely aesthetic enjoyment.

Both fugly in the extreme to my eye but at least the Genelec's make beautiful music.
That thing on the bottom has no value at all, other than to be used as a weapon.

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White couch, that can't be in a real place.
No one's ever played that piano either.

Talking about regular speakers, these are beautiful : Neeper Acoustics Perfection One

But what's with this fad of making speakers fat on top & skinny on the bottom
The new PS Audios and many others are the same.
All look ready to fall over.

 

[Vladimir Filevski]

Did someone not understand the mounting instructions? Might work out if you lay flat on the floor! Otherwise?

Driver time alignment.

 

[Vladimir Filevski]

Bouncing those 3 tweeters off the floor is going to be fun times.

Thick carpet will take care of that.

 

[Killingbeans]

White couch, that can't be in a real place.
No one's ever played that piano either.

The place probably also has acoustics like a giant public restroom.

 

[killdozzer]

Driver time alignment.

I don't think so. Turn the volume up a bit and the highs will only be hitting your shins. I don't see how exactly you'd time align them reach your ears.

 

[Vladimir Filevski]

I don't think so. Turn the volume up a bit and the highs will only be hitting your shins. I don't see how exactly you'd time align them reach your ears.

Time alignment system brings the distance of acoustic centers of all drivers to be the same at the ear position.
Woofer acoustic center is deeper than the tweeter's. Look at the first picture below (from Wikipedia):

When you are listening at the tweeter axis (or between tweeter and woofer), as in route p, there is difference between acoustic distances from the tweeter and from the woofer, denoted as "offset". In route p' there is no difference between acoustic distances from the tweeter and from the woofer.
Now turn the loudspeaker (top picture) upside down - woofer will be at the ear height, and tweeter below. Now there will be no difference between acoustic distances from the tweeter and from the woofer. Or, the difference will be small.