They kind of look like the design mandate was to make a KEF Blade, but everything has to be different: tweeter inside the midrange? Check! Force-canceling dual woofers? Yep! Set up all the drivers for a virtual point source? You got it! Bizarre design that screams cutting edge in the short-term but will eventually be laughed at and regretted by almost everyone who buys it? Okey-dokey! They better sound fantastic, is all I'm saying...Monitor Audio's Hyphn Flagship Loudspeaker Is Unlike Anything You Have Seen So Far
Monitor Audio makes a statement with new Hyphn loudspeaker for $92,500. Will more speakers look like this?www.ecoustics.com
Interesting design. You'd think for that kind of money they could afford a vowel.
They are made from material similar to your kitchen countertop. 8 bass drivers are not lightweight either. Thus no surprise about 106kg.106 kg!! Is that each? They are not my cup of tea, visually, but I'll never be able to afford them anyway
Still a bit of a shock. You'd need a small team to adjust the toe in.
Agreed 100%106 kg!! Is that each? They are not my cup of tea, visually, but I'll never be able to afford them anyway
Osborn of Australia makes speakers that are 175kg each, for 1/4 the price, so the weight of the MA isn't so extreme lol106 kg!! Is that each? They are not my cup of tea, visually, but I'll never be able to afford them anyway
And woefully overpriced for value, i mean who pays high 5 figures and thinks it sounds better than a good $5000 speaker pair??
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I think I likened it to a clothespin for the Golden Gate Bridge.An elongated Tie Fighter made from basically plastic? Excluding some metal bits in the drivers. Did I miss something watching the videos? I may have fallen asleep on some parts. But, why the price? I don’t get it. Going to be a pita dusting the gap areas. Not a single measurement provided in the videos. Admittedly that could have been covered during my nap.
100 grand Each or for a set?
This “18 Hz – 60 kHz (In-room, -6dB)”
It obviously depends entirely on the speakers you're comparing, but it's not at all difficult to find speakers that are better than ones costing $5000.
Well, the fact that dedicated DSP corrected amplification works well in Genelec and a few others who are mostly pro-audio does not guaranty a superior product in the hands of a company with zero experience in electronics.
That wasn't my argument... Find me a pair of " anything" that sounds better than bmr towers at any price... Blind a/ b of course....the placebo effect along with fomo makes higher cost gear sound " better" .. Good fr with quality drivers( bmr towers have both covered) pretty much covers reality.... I do agree with your overall premise though...
I don't know of many 5000 systems capable of sustained 115 to 120 dB levels with 130 dB peaks. The larger Perlisten play in the same neighborhood, and likely some horns that will do it. PLUS you have that beam steering, and point source illusion. AMT tweeters can be extraordinarily robust--I recall the Aurum Cantus 30130 could do 120+ and that was down to a kilohertz or so. I can't imagine ever listening quite that loudly but oh what fun to hear a really well recorded big symphonic work without any fear of compression or clipping on occasion.
