Infinity IRS Beta Kappa Speakers - EMIT & Servo Woofer Technology Explained 

Sad News for Sure....

One day! I have the RS-4B speakers, I love them but one day I will have the Kappa 9 setup (a little closer to my price range than the IRS-5's, lol)

Jack Allen I have the Qe, the rs4 and the kappa 9 😉 I actually reviewed the 9 on my channel

@@pyite100 May be you should heard them with 4 Pass labs power amps , 2 for his& mids, one pair for woofers , & crystal cables

Ive got the rs-3b's, reference studio monitors, and about to pick up the rs-2's. I would really like to hear the kappas one day, to many they sound better than the rs-2's. I'm glad to be part of this infinity community now. Was def missing out before

AMEN….. My Kappa 9’s still can beat the pants off of many other brands.

THanks for that link, I have of course watched it before and enjoyed watching it again. It truly is 70's full on hype, but hey I think it matches the Infinity persona. I believe I own the only set of IRS Beat's in the country I live in. Running the Kappa 9's and IRS's together makes for quite a special sound stage, but the cost was a challenge, I think the whole setup was about $35,000+ NZD but I listen to them every day hooked up to my laptop mostly while on utube, to my mind better than money in the bank. I do have spare emits if you ever come to need one... all my surrounds have been replaced with upgraded non degrading ones... Was thinking of recapping them, but wonder if that would change their sound? Thought on that? Oh dear this has become a novel, but I am passionate about these speakers and what Arnie did...take care.

I got 3 Maggies (mg2, mmgi, tympani 1) and 3 infinity classics (kappa 9, rs4, qe)

So true

Wow I did not know that they sold to Harmon but thought they with them for the better. Sad to know they went downhill.

Unfortunately, Infinity is still there where it was before...

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Multi-channel material hard to come by? That's not been my experience at all, actually there's more and more all the time.

FOH3663 Yes, referring to music material, much that was released on SACD is now out of print. I see a few new titles, but most releases are stereo only.

I disagree. You will sell them to me when you are ready.

1991 dodge caravan had infinity as an option too. The speakers had their own amps hung on the magnets.

Mine too, i tried to upgrade it with a focal set and it sounded like shit, the infinity tweeters deliver a more natural and realisitic mid/highs

Nice, I have a pair of these as well! Absolutely love them. They are just shockingly good. I also have the infinity reference studio monitors, and about to pick up the rs-2's. Once I heard the rs-3B's I was hooked, and can't stop searching for more.

The Modulus are Awesome Speakers!

umeng2002 what I hear as long as the woffer is loud and distorted, hey teens are happy

There is more music being made by more people than in any other time in history. If you think musicians today lack talent, you're out of your mind.

This is true. You just shouldn't look into mainstream, but some old farts will always be saying back then everything was better...

Well i certainly went down hill, but would not go as far as say to shit... At least not right away... The Kappa II series where made after he left, and the "IRS" Omega´s where also. Not in any way as great as the other IRS or even the original Kappas (though i have not heard any of the old ones), but i have owned Kappa 7.1, Kappa 8.2, and currently own the Omegas, while my friend has my old Kappa 8.2 and a set Kappa of 9.2 also, and they are all good speakers. And the Omega´s are still in the very high end of sound-quality.

have to agree with you,all the .1s & .2s etc were junk and shouldnt have been allowed to have the Kappa title,i own a set of fully restored Kappa 9s and they are incredible.running 2 Emotiva mono blocks.hardest part of refurbish was finding some good polydomes.the end of the Kappa series was really when arnie no longer had any part of them

Jesus.... What absolute thievery! Haha

The Artist is famed Jazz Guitarist - Lee Ritenour, and the track is called "The Sauce". His 1986 Album is called "Earth Run" off the GRP digital record label. Alot of Audiophiles and High End Audio Companies (ex. Infinity) were using His New age Jazz Fusion Music as excellent Demo Material at the time. Another Great track to check out by Lee Ritenour is Called "Rio Funk" from the GRP Live In Session. I posted the Track a few years back on YT : ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4IwObrJre5M.html

@@LiquidLightning1 Thanks. It's funny that i found the double live album, with "the sauce" among my cds - just didn't remember, that it's so cool.

Then Samsung, I wonder how things would have been if they (Lets pretend they where a wealthy company back then) had bought them in the 80s???

I will grant you that Infinity did not grow in terms of better overall performance based on where it was. The thing is a huge portion of all of the tech advances in all areas of audio over the last 30 years are a direct result of Harman's RND. If you look at what Infinity was physically doing in the 70's + 80's you quickly see that as an operation it's most valued contribution to the world was not the finished product. Few people could even hope to have any of their offerings. In departmentalizing Infinity, one could quickly see that their manufacturing arm was solely in existence to fund the RND department. Harman owns a number of high-end manufacturers who supply the audiophile market. An extremely small market indeed. Everyone looks at manufacturers like JBL and thumbs their nose up at them. In the last 20 years, JBL has unleashed a very disproportionate amount of new technology into the pro audio scene which I would guess is where they are the most successful overall. JBL is known as the major innovator of driver technology now and with that has the largest RND department and with that the largest RND budget of any speaker manufacturer on the planet. Harman being smart amalgamated all of their individual company's techs years ago. Tech is shared between all of them and used where it's benefits shine the most. For instance, as it says in the video Infinity invented class D amps. Crown before Harman knew nothing about class D and after being brought into the fold went on to develop Class I (a derivative of class D) which has revolutionized digital amp tech beyond almost all of the competition. Of course, Crown's focus is not Audiophile related and is more driven toward high power densities because their customer base more typically requires that. In Harman land, if one is searching for an amp with supersonic integrity one should look at offerings from Companies like Mark Levinson. Infinity did not stop contributing there either and has a few things that they have done of interest recently. Woven glass fibre cones are very interesting and unique. The current Kappa series drivers very much benefited from the stiffer lighter cone design and the motor structure developed by JBL. Harman didn't need another super elite manufacturer but Infinity had a very publicly renowned name where others like Mark Levinson do not. It makes sense that Infinity would be placed in a position to make an upper-mid level product aimed at the general public and make them more globally affordable. Of course, that would (and did) spell the end of them developing super elite speakers for the 4 or 5 people who could buy them every year. Is that not what PS audio is hoping to do?

i should be more clear about one thing. Infinity were the guys to introduce the idea of stiffer cone design with the development of Polypropylene. It revolutionized speaker design. Being that was a tall order. Now we have carbon fibre, Aramid fibre, woven glass fibre, natural fibre hybrids and so on. You will note that none of those is actually paper though. Yup, we still use wood pulps but the cone is so far from being "paper" that we can't even call it that anymore. It is just not. The notion of the stiffer, lighter cone though belongs to the Infinity guys though. Yup, all their fault. Lol.

@@MrRoberacer I dont think its such a revolution , this video makes it all look best of the best , ideal . But we shoud know that aint the case , my personal preference is smaller speakers , more simpler the better , i dont even have the desire for Infinity IRS , 50 000$ set , makes you blindly belive them , but that speaker has same problems other have , you need 16meter box for low bass to avoid distortion , LC Tuning aint gonna help there , just one example that they avoid to talk about since it owuld ruin their perfect world presentation . but every other company does the same . cat blame them

@@dedskin1 You said the problem exactly. "My personal preference". Opinions have nothing to do with science and that is what I see as the problem with the "Hifi" crowd. It is in fact all about mostly arrogant opinions. If we remove opinion and start doing actual measurements we quickly see that paper just doesn't cut the mustard. That isn't to say that if you like your paints smeared that you shouldn't have them but don't stand there and try to sell the world on the notion that your smeared, blurry and largely vague image is scientifically better (implied more accurate or real) than a photograph. We talk regularly about "snake oil salesmen and they only thrive because science is ignored. As a rule studio monitors are far more accurate and revealing of truth. What I think most people don't like about them is they do nothing to disguise the imperfections that are already there. It isn't the speakers fault if it is too good.

Lol

Of course, for def .LOL

I don't often comment on RU-vid but this gave me a good laugh!

Emit & emim 👍❤️

BOSE - Buy Other Sound Equipment

I assume they are already sold?

Actually that’s Samsung which brought Harman International in 2017 🥲🥲🥲

@@patrickguice Harman did this long before Samsung bought them

Sadly in 1983 Harman International brought the company with Arnie still in charge until 1989 when he left to start his new company Genesis Technologies with Paul McGowan who started PS Audio. In 2017 Harman International sold to Samsung and now it’s like the company never existed 😢😢😢 of course Harman International did start making the brand cheaper and garbage after Arnie was gone.