Worst measuring loudspeaker?

[Juhazi]

^Only when it's not raining.

 

[thewas]

A new candidate with exceptional value for money, $65000 for this compact loudspeaker

with these measurements

Source, review and more measurements: https://www.stereophile.com/content/audio-note-espx-ltd-field-coil-loudspeaker-measurements

 

[dfuller]

A new candidate with exceptional value for money, $65000 for this compact loudspeaker

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with these measurements

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Source, review and more measurements: https://www.stereophile.com/content/audio-note-espx-ltd-field-coil-loudspeaker-measurements

Holy diffraction dip Batman!

Also... field coil? What decade is it?

 

[kyuu]

A new candidate with exceptional value for money, $65000 for this compact loudspeaker

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with these measurements

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Source, review and more measurements: https://www.stereophile.com/content/audio-note-espx-ltd-field-coil-loudspeaker-measurements

Very nice, sticking a couple drivers into a wood box and not doing much else it seems for $65k. Gotta love Mr. Atkinson's conclusion at the end of the measurements section:

The Audio Note AN-E/SPx Ltd. Field Coil's measured performance is somewhat idiosyncratic.

Idiosyncratic, right.

 

[IngMishael]

Holy diffraction dip Batman!

Also... field coil? What decade is it?

You should visit other forums. Apparently field coils are the new wave

 

[Cbdb2]

View attachment 456501I had a pair of these bad boys as a teen, droven by a Radio Shack 10 watt amp. I'd say these qualify.

I have one in garage, should I send it to ASR for testing?

 

[IngMishael]

A new candidate with exceptional value for money, $65000 for this compact loudspeaker

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with these measurements

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Source, review and more measurements: https://www.stereophile.com/content/audio-note-espx-ltd-field-coil-loudspeaker-measurements

Such a beauty /s

 

[dfuller]

Gotta love Mr. Atkinson's conclusion at the end of the measurements section:


Idiosyncratic, right.

That's JA-speak for "very obviously flawed".

 

[Mnyb]

Holy diffraction dip Batman!

Also... field coil? What decade is it?

Century almost

 

[Newman]

I was thinking the same (Norway here), movies outside? It would either be too bright or snowing.

I think you just defined geographical disadvantage.

 

[thewas]

A top candidate, not to talk about frequency response, directivity, resonances but even pair matching is poor and this for "only" 24000€ for a pair of compact full band drivers:

Voxativ PI Messungen - FIDELITY online

Zu den die handgefertigten Chassis der Voxativ-Lautsprecher stellt sich einem Außenstehenden unweigerlich die Frage, wie es hier mit Fertigungstoleranzen...

www.fidelity-online.de

 

[Arindal]

Apparently field coils are the new wave

Not that new maybe...

Focal seemingly revived the concept in 2008.

 

[dfuller]

A top candidate, not to talk about frequency response, directivity, resonances but even pair matching is poor and this for "only" 24000€ for a pair of compact full band drivers:

Voxativ PI Messungen - FIDELITY online

Zu den die handgefertigten Chassis der Voxativ-Lautsprecher stellt sich einem Außenstehenden unweigerlich die Frage, wie es hier mit Fertigungstoleranzen...

www.fidelity-online.de

wow that is a lot of resonances.

 

[Soniclife]

wow that is a lot of resonances.

You get your money's worth.

 

[Frank Dernie]

To the young: This is a "drive-in," c. 1956. View attachment 456941

1. They had so-so image quality projection, if everybody would only keep their headlights off.
2. The sound was worse. In a normal indoor theater in 1953-1956, the sound was just getting good (providing one had a magnetic/stereo soundtrack rather than the execrable mono/optical ones).
3. Also, think of the difference between this:View attachment 456942

and this: View attachment 456943

A well off friend of mine has had a home theatre built and the seating is a 1950s Cadillac convertible.

 

[Frank Dernie]

Holy diffraction dip Batman!

Also... field coil? What decade is it?

That speaker is their model E available with varying driver diaphragms, voice coils and magnets and crossovers with varying amounts of silver components the field coil drivers being the most expensive over a huge span.
They may well sound quite similar to each other but the placebo effect gets stronger the more expensive they get.
Probably.

 

[IngMishael]

A top candidate, not to talk about frequency response, directivity, resonances but even pair matching is poor and this for "only" 24000€ for a pair of compact full band drivers:

Voxativ PI Messungen - FIDELITY online

Zu den die handgefertigten Chassis der Voxativ-Lautsprecher stellt sich einem Außenstehenden unweigerlich die Frage, wie es hier mit Fertigungstoleranzen...

www.fidelity-online.de

ah yes of course. Mediocrity wrapped in marketing drivel

 

[IngMishael]

Not that new maybe...

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Focal seemingly revived the concept in 2008.

I meant new in that audiophiles love rehashing terrible things we left behind and present them as some groundbreaking achievement