TheEAR Posted October 29, 2006 Share Posted October 29, 2006 The elusive brown note is more of a myth than fact. SPL would have to be eardrum tearing and bowel blasting to cause brownies to apear from people.I would say over 140dB @ 6-8Hz. not easy to reproduce. [A] Not true. My son just had one, and from what I can tell it was an octive somewhere in the Spongebob song. Mr Mayonaise, Please to cause a true blue Brown Nore you need a sustained SPL way above the capablity of any sub you may have.Or B...your son will have Brown Notes each time Britney Speakers lamo songs play on the radio. I think it is B. [] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edwinr Posted October 29, 2006 Author Share Posted October 29, 2006 The Meridian DSP8000 is a 4 foot high truncated pyramid carrying the tweeter and midrange unit sitting atop a curved bass bin containing no fewer than six 8" woofers. Three of these plastic-cone, long-throw units are mounted vertically in-line on each side panel. The HF unit's voice-coil is silver, and its dome is specified as being formed from a "composite" material... Yummy stuff when you cosider the DSP8000 is active - no power amps to worry about, just a preamp. But you can even drive these things directly from a suitable digital source... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheEAR Posted October 29, 2006 Share Posted October 29, 2006 TheEAR likes Dynaudio and speakers that look AND sound good too! Hmmm, let me see..... Ah! The C4 of course! At $16,000/pair price, the C4 uses lots ot trickle down stuff from theMaster and the Temptation which are $85,000 and $30,000 respectively. Interestingly the C4 uses concepts orginally made famous by John Dunlavy from Duntech and DAL. You can see some similarity with those older designs... And you could also say Duntech uses Dynaudio drivers.Dynaudio designs and fabricates all drivers in house,in Denmark.No cheapo labour like we know...ahem...ahem...who.Paradigm is another such brand,all drivers designed and made in house,as is Focal. Also you know Dynaudio drivers are used in the word's best speakers,along with ScanSpeak,Eton and Accuton. JBL and TAD also design and manufacture some juicy drivers,drivers you could use to build killer horn loaded speakers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edwinr Posted October 29, 2006 Author Share Posted October 29, 2006 More 'thwack' for Duke courtesy of Wilson Audio... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheEAR Posted October 29, 2006 Share Posted October 29, 2006 The recently introduced $32,500/pair Midi-Grand-Ceramique GRCe-M-1.0, is offered as a stepping stone in the Ceramique line between the top-of-the-line Grand-Ceramique and the Ceramique 1.1. Now these are nice. I could live with a pair of these... They use Accuton and Eton drivers mostly,the non Accuton tweeters are from Focal. Also you should post...Rockport Technologies speakers they use Dynaudio and mid-bass/woofers made by a company with former Dynaudio engineers...forgot the name.These drivers are used in Verity Audio's speakers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheEAR Posted October 29, 2006 Share Posted October 29, 2006 edwinr, Wilson Audio what are model are these monsters? Not the WHAMM that is for sure.I have the rare chance of auditioning all the wilson speakers from the WITT to the Grand SLAMM X1's.Quite impressive ,in the dynamic and uncolored way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edwinr Posted October 29, 2006 Author Share Posted October 29, 2006 Forum glitch... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheEAR Posted October 29, 2006 Share Posted October 29, 2006 Glitches galore! From top ten speakers to tom ten,buns! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garyrc Posted October 29, 2006 Share Posted October 29, 2006 1) One big difference between, say, the 80's and today: In the past it was possible to hear most of the advanced speaker designs in an urban area, with a short road trip. In '82 I had my choice narrowed down to three rather different sounding speakers: the Klipschorn, the B & W 801 (F, I think), and the JBL 4350 (big studio monitor that made Duke's list). I was able to hear the Klipschorn cheek by jowl with the 801 at a store in Oakland, and the JBL next to the Klipschorn in Berkeley (the Khorn sounded the most like the orchestra I heard every day, so I went with it .... the JBL was a close second, and the B & W was very pretty, rich, and pleasant, but not like "live"). Within a half hour's drive, I heard Magnapan, Bozak, Acoustat, Altec, Polk, Infinity, you-name-it. I listened for weeks (hours in each store during off hours) and came up with Khorns. It was hilarious to hear a few of the dealers bad mouth speakers they didn't carry, until I no longer found it funny, and asked them to keep their opinions to themselves and let me just listen. Today, try finding and listening to the collection Edwinr and the others have posted! 2) The most powerful confounding variable, in the past and now, would be the combination of room acoustics and placement. I've been repeatedly surprised by speakers I am not particularly fond of sounding excellent in certain rooms. JBL 4312s sounded great at The Different Fur Trading Company (a recording studio, of course), and not too bad at Tower Records Classical. The Bozak Concert Grand sounded great (but a little tame compared to the Khorn nearby) in one store, and incredibly muffled and distant at another. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Groomlakearea51 Posted October 29, 2006 Share Posted October 29, 2006 Runnin' total, and a list of "appearances" from the good, bad, ugly and "aesthetically pleasing".... Those pesky little forum glitches are not included at the moment (but could be...) Acoustic Energy AE1 MkIII's Advantegarde Trios AE1 Allison Ones Altec Voice of the Theatre (e.g., A7). Altec AlNiCo 604 duplex drivers (e.g., 604B) Altec 19 ATC SCM 50 Avalon Eidolon Diamond Avantegarde Trio Avantgarde Duo Avantgarde Duo B&W 801 B&W 802D B&W N800 Bard by Loth-x BBC LS3/5a BBC LS3/5a loudspeaker Bonneville 650s Bose 901 Bosendorfer AC7E Cornwall Dahlquist DQ-10s DL-15/Bs Duntechs Dynaco A25 Dynacos Dynaudio C4 Dynaudio Master Dynaudio Evidence Master Dynaudio Temptation Dynaudio's Evidence Temptation Edgarhorn Titan Eliptica ESS AMT Final Sound-1000-i Gallo Reference 3's Grand Monument Reference Grand SLAMM X1's Harbeth Monitor 40 JBL K2 JBL Everest JBL 4350 JBL L100 JBL 4311 JBL 4312 JBL 4313 JBL L-7 JBL 4430/ 4435 JM Lab Focal Grande Utopia KEF 105 KEF B139 woofers Kharma Reference 1A Kharma Grande Ceramique KL-650 Klipsch LaScala Klipsch Cornwall Klipsch Heresy Klipsch RF-7 Klipsch RB5 Klipschorn Klipschorn 60th Anniversary Large Advent Loudspeaker Legacy Whisper Living Voice Airscout Loth-z Amaze Loth-X Audio Amaze M&K S150 satellite Magnaplanar 20.1 Magnepan MGLR1 Magnepan MG20.1 Martin Logan Summits Martin Logan Vantage Martin Logans (aerius) Martin Logan Summit mbl 101D Radialstrahler McIntosh-XRT2K-3 Meridian DSP8000 Midi-Grand-Ceramique GRCe-M-0, Nearfield Pipedreams Nearfield Pipedreams NHT Oheocha D2 Saturn Opera Audio Consonance M12 Barque Quad "57" electrostatics (I finally have acquired a pair of these) R312's Cerwin Vega Reference R909 Revel Salon2's Revel Salon2's Rockport Technologies Hyperion Sonus Faber Amati Homage anniversario Sound Fusion Hyperion Stradivari Homage Summit Tannoy Westminister Thiel CS7Bowers & Wilkins 800 Signature Thiel CS3.7 Totem Arro Totem Triangle Veritas V2.4i VOTT Wharfedale Wharfedale W-70 Wilson Audio Sophia Wilson Alexandria X2 WITT Zephyr Zu Definition Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seti Posted October 29, 2006 Share Posted October 29, 2006 I would love to hear these electronluv.com horns. I heard they will be selling these this year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edwinr Posted October 29, 2006 Author Share Posted October 29, 2006 edwinr, Wilson Audio what are model are these monsters? Not the WHAMM that is for sure.I have the rare chance of auditioning all the wilson speakers from the WITT to the Grand SLAMM X1's.Quite impressive ,in the dynamic and uncolored way. Arthur, that was a typo. For 'Wilson', read 'Wisdom'. The Infinite Wisdom Grande is capable of high spl's in excess of 120 dB. Employing stacked three section planar-magnetic arrays over 13 feet tall, low frequency assemblies over 8 feet tall and a total system weight of almost two tons, this is a HUGE speaker system. The stacked Infinite Series three section planar-magnetic arrays are mated to mammoth low frequency assemblies incorporating twelve 12 inch, underhung, 3 inch voice coil low frequency regenerators per channel, for a total of twenty-four drivers per pair. Now that's real 'thwack' potential... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edwinr Posted October 29, 2006 Author Share Posted October 29, 2006 Seti, maybe we could start a top 10 list of the world's uglist speakers - this would make the list as well as yours... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duke Spinner Posted October 29, 2006 Share Posted October 29, 2006 1) One big difference between, say, the 80's and today: In the past it was possible to hear most of the advanced speaker designs in an urban area, with a short road trip. I Aaaahh .... the late '70's, early '80's .... when there were actual Stereo Shops......... not Box Store's, selling interchangeable Black Crap in Rochester we had Bob Hyatt's, Gala Sound, Sound Advantage, Brighton Sound... carrying the Good Stuff ..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edwinr Posted October 29, 2006 Author Share Posted October 29, 2006 The B&W Nautilus. This is where the whole Nautilus thing started. This concept speaker caught the public's imagination and B&W have been reaping the rewards since... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edwinr Posted October 29, 2006 Author Share Posted October 29, 2006 Nautilus in a system... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edwinr Posted October 29, 2006 Author Share Posted October 29, 2006 The $65,000 Quintessence Acoustics Stealth. Nice... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edwinr Posted October 29, 2006 Author Share Posted October 29, 2006 Genesis Technologies II.5. What a speaker! This would be in someone's top 10. Who needs to turn them on? I would just sit and look at them all day... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edwinr Posted October 29, 2006 Author Share Posted October 29, 2006 They make nice amplifiers too. Gryphon Technologies Poseidon... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edwinr Posted October 29, 2006 Author Share Posted October 29, 2006 Sorry guys. I just can't fix this glitch... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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