Ray Garrison Posted January 18, 2005 Share Posted January 18, 2005 Let's see... For roughly $7,500 you can have your new pair of KHorns... For roughly $35,000 you can have your Avantgarde Trio's... Or, for roughly $375,000, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deang Posted January 18, 2005 Share Posted January 18, 2005 Is it just me -- or is that ugly as hell? I have to admit -- the trumpet is a nice touch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daddy Dee Posted January 18, 2005 Share Posted January 18, 2005 They don't appeal to my fine sense of aesthetics, but would be interested to hear them. $375K, Hey, you never know, I might be inspired! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
customsteve01 Posted January 18, 2005 Share Posted January 18, 2005 I was thinking you would really have to have a strange taste in decor to have that go with anything in the house. But I guess if you could afford them you could aford to have just that special place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
customsteve01 Posted January 18, 2005 Share Posted January 18, 2005 I was thinking you would really have to have a strange taste in decor to have that go with anything in the house. But I guess if you could afford them you could aford to have just that special place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piranha Posted January 18, 2005 Share Posted January 18, 2005 That looks like the system Kevin Deal had in his living room the last time I was at his house. For that kind of ducats it better sound REALLY good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scott0527 Posted January 18, 2005 Share Posted January 18, 2005 Nice accordion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3dzapper Posted January 19, 2005 Share Posted January 19, 2005 Scott, You had to go and make me laugh! All I could think of was that guy sitting there on a Sunday morning listening to the Polka Show!!! Rick "And now The Fat Lady Polka!!!!!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
st. patrick Posted January 19, 2005 Share Posted January 19, 2005 ...........and i thought i had problems with the WAF, geezzzzzzzzzzzz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lynnm Posted January 19, 2005 Share Posted January 19, 2005 Where's the clarinet? What make are those monsters? I've seen their site at some point but cannot recall the brand name. Edit: Never mind. I clicked on the pic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nicholtl Posted January 19, 2005 Share Posted January 19, 2005 Wow! And here I thought the Wilson Alexandria X2's were the world's most expensive speakers. Those things are about double the price! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrWho Posted January 19, 2005 Share Posted January 19, 2005 The thing that bothers me is that the room they're in isn't even symmetrical. I don't understand spending that much money and then having a wall on one side, and nothing on the other...it leaves such a big hole in the music For even $100,000 it would be a trivial matter to build a very large dedicated room (which of course leaves $275,000 for purchasing speakers, lol) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxg Posted January 19, 2005 Share Posted January 19, 2005 What is the coffin in the middle for? Low WAF? Seriously - I cannot figure out what the middle box is - a sub perhaps? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timmikid Posted January 19, 2005 Share Posted January 19, 2005 ---------------- On 1/19/2005 3:38:08 AM maxg wrote: What is the coffin in the middle for? Low WAF? Seriously - I cannot figure out what the middle box is - a sub perhaps? ---------------- The coffin is actually a time capsule that brings you back to exactly one minute before you proudly showed your new speakers to your wife. If, due to cosmic interference, your timeleap fails, you can be buried in it! Imagine what would happen if your cat managed to crawl in and you didn't notice it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parrot Posted January 19, 2005 Share Posted January 19, 2005 The price may seem high, but: 1) According to their write-up, it "is without question the best speaker in the world." 2) "The company was one of the first, if not the very first, to use horns in their loudspeaker design." 3) The buyer gets to choose the horn color from any German automotive paint there is. Also: ***The Excalibur is a high efficiency speaker with only low power required to get them playing loudly. The woofer and midrange are standard technology (although made of the highest quality materials) but its main claim to fame is an ion tweeter. In most speakers, the tweeter is a mechanical device where magnets propel some form of diaphragm or other material to generate sound waves, normally costing $100 to $200. The Excalibur uses an ion tweeter, where voltage is shunted in between two electrodes, energizing the air and creating sound. It is the only massless tweeter on the market, with no moving parts. The tweeters alone would cost the manufacturer about $10,000.*** Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fini Posted January 19, 2005 Share Posted January 19, 2005 I dunno, when I look at those things, all I see are two cycloptic Al Jolson cartoons... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daddy Dee Posted January 19, 2005 Share Posted January 19, 2005 Oh, yeah. ion tweeter supply. At first, I thought the middle cabinet was fitted on the inside with bunks... for the owner and his audiophile friends.... since he ain't gonna be sleeping in the master bedroom. With a system like this, sleeping on the couch is uncool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunnysal Posted January 19, 2005 Share Posted January 19, 2005 I, once again, wonder about having a tweeter tucked behind all those horn curves...what must this things radiation pattern look like?! all sorts of drops out I suspect...for that kinda money I might instead buy a new set of cars and a "mid-fi" system with revel speakers, krell amps, etc...tony btw here is a DIY plasma tweeter http://www.plasmatweeter.de/eng_plasma.htm (this guy is also a single driver enthusiast/SET) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptnBob Posted January 19, 2005 Share Posted January 19, 2005 "First to use a horn?" Even before Edison? When I was in junior high, I strapped the speaker from a transistor radio to the mouthpiece of my Sousaphone. Perhaps I was ahead of my time... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxg Posted January 19, 2005 Share Posted January 19, 2005 Power supply for the tweeter huh? Somehow that isnt obvious!! I think it is the same size as my first appartment! Does it have to be front and centre like that? Couldnt it be mounted somewhere else - like a power station some miles away maybe.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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