Tom Danley’s new ‘Hyperion’

[Digby]

As excellent as I'm sure these speakers are, I feel like they need to employ a woman or flamboyant homosexual to help them out in the aesthetics department.

 

[Purité Audio]

Did you have someone specific in mind?
They are the ultimate expression of form following function.
Keith

 

[K_Media Engineering]

If anybody is interested in experiencing the Danley HRE (ex-Hyperion) latest prototype, there is a pair in Budapest and it will be shown in one of the high-end audio dealers showroom in the next 2-3 weeks.

 

[Purité Audio]

They look very familiar.
Keith

 

[K_Media Engineering]

They look very familiar.
Keith

You think so?

 

[K_Media Engineering]

We were using them for the introduction event of our My Reel Club series Gábor Juhász Trio, featuring Julia Karosi and Tony Lakatos: Planets album. It is a live studio recording in DXD/DSD, high speed tape, Atmos and CD.

 

[K_Media Engineering]

If anybody is interested in experiencing the Danley HRE (ex-Hyperion) latest prototype, there is a pair in Budapest and it will be shown in one of the high-end audio dealers showroom in the next 2-3 weeks.

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We have done a few measurements in the given room. This is one of them.

 

[egellings]

Looks good.

 

[K_Media Engineering]

Looks good.

There is a chance that I will share few other diagrams as well, we will see.

 

[stevenswall]

Curious to see how this compares to the JBL M2 which is what it makes me think of.

That speaker seems extremely loud and quite accurate. Curious if this is louder, more accurate, more extended, or all three.

 

[Vacceo]

We hope to have a pair of Danley’s new Hyperion ( this pair in fact)

here at Purité Audio London early in October.
Keith

I had to look at it twice as I thought it was a sink.

 

[K_Media Engineering]

Curious to see how this compares to the JBL M2 which is what it makes me think of.

That speaker seems extremely loud and quite accurate. Curious if this is louder, more accurate, more extended, or all three.

I had a brief, few hours long experience with the M2 with Crown amps. So I can not compare them, honestly.
Subjectively the HRE has a kind of limitless dynamics feeling, a liveliness, and scale which is practically unmatched by any of the speakers (and amplification) I was living with (Focal Grand Utopia, Avantgarde Acoustics Trio, Naim DBL, etc.).

It needs room; I would suggest letting at least 3 - 4 m between the two speakers and at least a meter between the side wall and the speaker. 35-40 sqm room is practically the minimum to get its sound right, and you need to sit at least 4-5 m from them.
Using this way, the speaker completely disappears from the room.

It has a 60x60 dispersion, so it can focus the energy on the listener.

It is quite surprising how well its four ways are integrated; it is like a huge single-point source but moves lots of air.

It goes down to 20 Hz and possibly lower and can provide quite a bit of volume between 20-40 Hz, so it puts the floor below the instruments and musicians.

 

[williamwally]

I guess Tom and crew aren't messing around either (not that they ever were)!

 

[Ra1zel]

Curious to see how this compares to the JBL M2 which is what it makes me think of.

That speaker seems extremely loud and quite accurate. Curious if this is louder, more accurate, more extended, or all three.

It's a unity horn so certainly sensitivity is even higher than M2, also hyperion has dedicated subwoofers while M2 doesn't actually go that low as may be expected from 15 inch driver since it's more optimized as a woofer.

 

[pseudoid]

Wow, sanded AND lacquered marine ply, complete with putty over the staple holes! That 'foldback style' speaker looks hideously amatuerish, let's be honest.

Definitely lacks any forethought for W.A.F. but may not really be meant for consumer installations.
@Purité Audio had posted the Cessaro speakers (at the Munich Show), in an earlier post.

Danley's HRE (Ex-Hyperion) speaker here:

IMO >> Both look like his-n-hers bathroom sinks!

EDIT: February 2022 new thread "Competition for Danley’s Hyperion" is here.

 

[Matthias McCready]

Danley showed some of their new prototypes in Baton Rouge.
Keith

What is the sub under the table?

 

[Patrick Bateman]

Danley CS-30:

Featherweight Title Fight

Can anyone figure out what's going on in the Danley CS-30? I can't figure out how they're getting a bandpass-ish response curve along with an impedance curve that almost looks like a sealed box. Based on some comments from Ivan Beaver, it looks like the CS-30 complements the TH-Mini well, so I...

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[Patrick Bateman]

Curious to see how this compares to the JBL M2 which is what it makes me think of.

That speaker seems extremely loud and quite accurate. Curious if this is louder, more accurate, more extended, or all three.

erin's audio corner has measured and reviewed the JBL M2 and the Danley Synergy Horn

As I understand it, part of "the Hyperion Magic" is the use of DSP to optimize the frequency and phase response to the Nth degree.

Due to the fact that Synergy and Unity horns are point source speakers with a lot of headroom, they're very friendly to equalization of frequency and phase response.


A conventional speaker isn't friendly to EQ because a conventional speaker (generally) doesn't have unlimited headroom, and if you EQ it at one point in the room it might make things worse in a different point. Anyone who does car audio has run into this, where the system can sound really great for the driver while sounding poor for the passenger.

A point source like the Kef speakers isn't amenable to a lot of EQ because they don't have a lot of headroom. If you add 3-6dB of EQ to a Kef speaker, you might end up reducing the maximum output by 25-50%

 

[Rja4000]

To give you an idea of the scale of the new ILE,



Keith

Looks like a Cabasse reminiscence...

 

[GimeDsp]

What is the sub under the table?

Too much BLACK!!!!

Looks like fun.