All the haters out there, please go and listen to highest end Hi-fi's before commenting. I've just come back from listening to a £100'000+ system and it just blows me away. It was a music emotional experience. Yes the level in gains of sound quality narrows as the price increases, but if you have the money... the sound quality is quite literally priceless.
I think it sounds quite pretentious to some people, but you're right and many people don't have the means to experience so just trash it. I have a very good home system, ATC 50 ASL's and some other entry-level high end gear, and sitting in front of them is a wholly other experience than just simply listening to music.
I'm not against high end hifi but a lot of the reason their demos sound so much better than the average home system is the quality of the recording. Try the exact same recording on a 5 grand system and a hundred grand system and you ain't gonna see 95 grand's worth of improvement.
I did a bit of reading, and these drivers are pretty impressive for what they can do. If I could have any speakers in the world, I'd take a pair of these, some Radialstrahlers, and a set of blades, for the garage of course. ;) One can dream.
Those Pnoe are the most elegant employment of Physics and the moving coil transducer I've ever observed for the musical event reproduction, seriously, Bravo!
To those that don't know. Yes they most likely use a sub. There's no other way to get sub level sound. No full range speaker can do that. But they are top 3 in the world. As good as it gets. And yes like all full range. They are not designed to rock out. They are for a small amount of instruments. In this genre though. Only a couple truly compete. You Tube cannot do them justice. It doesn't even play all the frequencies to do so. This is on another level. There are always compromises with sound. This is as perfect as a full range, single speaker gets. Near perfection. Where perfection is not actually attainable.
The "audiophile industry" just doesn't seem to understand, that if a speaker is athletically not pleasing to the eye, or ugly looking, people won't care as to how good they sound!! Speakers need to look good, not only sound great!
There are plenty of audiophile speakers, that are incredibly pleasing to the eye. Sonus Faber, are just one example that comes to mind. Even their largest speakers look like a fine piece of furniture. Incredible finish, But the makers of this speaker, know going in, that anyone who buys this speaker, will be those willing to 'put up' with their appearance, if the like what they hear. And of course, I can't imagine anyone buying these (the large pair) is going to be trying to integrate them into a living room. And form my point of view, since I am a "form follows function" kind of person, they are very attractive, from an engineering point of view.
CD is a superior format to vinyl in many ways. Whether is sounds better is personal preference but it still can easily make a system shine as shown in the video.
Reverberation effects of the room this was filmed at mainly. But our brains are pretty good at putting such information together and that's why I hate "these speakers sound exactly like my 1$ computer speakers at home" comments because we do get a vague idea of how something sounds.
I have no doubt the sound quality is amazing. But just thinking about the aesthetics of having these very large space taking speakers does not appear to me.
CDs don't cover all frequencies in Hifi : use and hight end turntable and a vinyle record : that's why vinyles records are comming back . Good and nice set up !
The frequency response of a record will never match a hi-res digital file no matter how you look at it. The only thing records have better than digital is mastering since a plastic disc has very a very low distortion tolerance. CDs most likely cover all the fq spectrum and more
i got some of these in my living room. I am sure we had a cat at some point, at least my wife mentioned it the other day. The left hand speaker sounded a bit muffled and they replaced it. Suppose we will never know now!
In my opinion these speakers, even for horn loaded speakers, have taken this recording, which sounds a little bright, and evens out the presentation as compared to some of the other speakers demonstrated throughout the show, which seem to excite the bright tendency, which this recording appears to lean towards . . . at least on RU-vid. These speakers also seem to have great dynamics owing, most likely, to the horn design. The overall appearance and approach to speaker design seems very uniquely contemporary and would fit in some eclectic interior designs. This again is in my opinion.
