Unusual Speaker Designs

[Frank Dernie]

Ah, that's why they look like that. Sureeeeeeeeeeeee LOL

I hate the Giya styling and loved the B&W styling but it is true, getting a tapered bass absorber long enough to fit in the room means an unusual shape.
If the Giya didn't look so awful I may have been tempted - they are amongst the best sounding speakers ever IME.

 

[mhardy6647]

If you say so I could not disagree since I have no real knowledge of speaker design. But I do find it a little hard to swallow that the design of the GIVA line was done in a strictly form follows function manner. Sure seems to me the form was more to appeal to a good WAF with it's cutesy musical note shape? Then again I could be totally wrong?

Klein Bottle enclosures.
Great for playing The Beatles' White Album.

Your inside is out, and your outside is in, so come on...

 

[MZKM]

But I do find it a little hard to swallow that the design of the GIVA line was done in a strictly form follows function manner. Sure seems to me the form was more to appeal to a good WAF with it's cutesy musical note shape? Then again I could be totally wrong?

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[Harmonie]

Don't know if these were mentioned:
(full product brochure - worth taking a look, design-wise}

METAXAS & SINS - Sirens

Looks like a pregnant Droid/Loudspeaker

 

[Harmonie]

Looks like a pregnant Droid/Loudspeaker

Une enceinte enceinte in French

 

[Mnyb]

Don't know if these were mentioned:
(full product brochure - worth taking a look, design-wise}

METAXAS & SINS - Sirens

Just look carefully at the red ones ( the backside pic) they are designed to resemble a woman’s butt what acoustical properties dictated that .
I understand the original nautilus or similar designs when the unusual form does follow a functional need. .
But they are unusual so perfectly on topic

 

[pavuol]

I'm new to speakers, does "isobaric bass port" speakers count for this thread, or is it adopted by more manufacurers?
Wilson Benesch - Endeavour / Discovery II

 

[pavuol]

RDacoustic - "Evolution" + "Euphoria" speakers, for some more info, see #113

 

[Frank Dernie]

RDacoustic - "Evolution" + "Euphoria" speakers, for some more info, see #113

Those look like the truly awful Lowther full range horrors or clones thereof.

 

[pavuol]

Those look like the truly awful Lowther full range horrors or clones thereof.

ahahaha

"Kleinhorns" (small horns) featuring DX55 lowther drivers / search revealed they were already mentioned here #96

 

[pavuol]

BOS Beacon Of Sound

 

[pavuol]

What the...

Google translated as "Phonotron", we need some russian speaking member here ...just for translation, not for sending it to Amir
KIRA audiomanufacory

 

[pavuol]

Some more crazy stuff at Electronluv (search revealed this manufacturer was mentioned in #71 by Mr. @Xulonn

image source

 

[somebodyelse]

I'm new to speakers, does "isobaric bass port" speakers count for this thread, or is it adopted by more manufacurers?
Wilson Benesch - Endeavour / Discovery II

Unusual certainly, but probably not unprecedented. I didn't spot a technical description of the Capitalised Marketing Term, but it's probably a face-to-face driver arrangement. I think Linn coined the name with their Isobarik, but the arrangement may have been around before that.

 

[FrantzM]

ESD Acoustics - "Dragon" (5-way system)

What should be the listening distance for any of these?

 

[sergeauckland]

Unusual certainly, but probably not unprecedented. I didn't spot a technical description of the Capitalised Marketing Term, but it's probably a face-to-face driver arrangement. I think Linn coined the name with their Isobarik, but the arrangement may have been around before that.

Isobarik, meaning constant pressure. The two bass drivers move in phase, such that the pressure inside the box doesn't change.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isobaric_loudspeaker

Invented by Harry Olsen in the 1950s so nothing new under the sun.

S.

 

[sergeauckland]

What should be the listening distance for any of these?

Far Far Away?
S.

 

[Pearljam5000]

 

[pozz]

What the...

Google translated as "Phonotron", we need some russian speaking member here ...just for translation, not for sending it to Amir
KIRA audiomanufacory
View attachment 90632

It says:

Рупорная, омниполярная 3D акустическая система "Фонотрон".

Horn-based omnidirectional 3D acoustical system [by the name of] "Phonotron".

There's no other information outside of pictures.

Looking at the site, it seems that these guys are furniture makers. This speaker belongs in their steampunk section.

They also have an active subwoofer named Valkyrie (controls for crossover frequency, phase and level on the front):

The style reminds of nautical decor.

 

[pavuol]

This speaker belongs in their steampunk section.

Thanks for clarifying, pretty interesting collection.