Those remind me of big screen TVs from the 90s with the screens busted out....yet my lust is unabated! Phwoar!
Definitely not something for a shared space.
Your loudspeaker holy grail
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Definitely not something for a shared space.
Tigerjones
Bagpuss
Nothing ugly about those....yet my lust is unabated! Phwoar!
davidf
pfm Member
i also have the T88s driven by 52/135s
I have a large room and they work great.
The 808s look great and would guess they would sound better, but at quote a price
Maybe one day....
David
Totally get this comment having owned various lowthers ns1000s and 57s, going though a vitavox/ horn phase about 15 years ago..
I've around 25 years of speaker building behind me and its still a big ask. Commercial speakers that come close to offering everything are over the 100k mark, so for me diy was what got me close to my ideal.i would say I'm not far off the mark these last few years with what I've built.
Fortunately, for my wellbeing, I've never heard loudspeakers costing that amount of money.
Compared to say a £20k or £30k pair, what is it with regards to the electronics/drivers that elevates their performance to another level?
Thank you.
Tony L
Administrator
Indeed. Pure form dictated by function. Proper design, not ‘lifestyle’ prissiness.
PS I’ve only ever heard one, I’d love to hear a pair one day. Sadly missed pfm mod/Stereophile writer Markus Sauer had a pair driven by Shindo amps for a good while, but I never got to hear them.
Rockmeister
pfm Member
Which requires a link to those projects. I’d like see your ideas.
Folkman
pfm Member
Ive heard the BB5's driven actively by a stack of Bryston's. They don't half pin your ears back
The MB2's on their own don't do too bad either
.But the thing is they are not all about slam , i play quite a lot of solo harp music and they give a full scale dynamic sound yet delicate when needed.
say it as it is
pfm Member
Hats off to you sir I don't have the funds,skills or equipment to DIY speakers. But if the bang for buck is anything like power amps could be amazing
Tigerjones
Bagpuss
Alex, do you still own a pair of unneeded AX2s?
No. Or you can hide them behind a screen and call it 'Cinema'.
Alex S
carbon based lifeform
I probably do.
paulfromcamden
Baffled
If my fantasy Altec A7s don't go with the interior I guess I could settle for a JBL Paragon instead.
yuckyamson
pfm Member
I'd have to add big tads.
Sorry for the late reply, a busy weekend so far
Loudspeakers are a difficult thing to get right, it's easy to make them good at certain things,
My view is high efficiency is a good start, that to me gives more lifelike transients, but then you need 3/ 4 drivers to get a reasonably flat response.
I've been through my horn phase, those sounded lovely at 1st, but after a few years I could hear colouration, so I dropped them.
I don't like bass reflex /ported Loudspeakers, to me most of them have a unnatural heavy sound .. which can sound impressive I know, but its not for me.
About 5 years ago I came up with a plan to build an extended H frame, in a semi open baffle format, which for me works, in my view it does every thing right ...
Very high efficiency, dynamics and realism, relatively small footprint and does room filling sound levels on a couple of watts or so.
I normally organise the audio talk meets and I'll be at the wam show this year all being well..
I'm sure some will have different views to me, but that's fine.
PhilofCas
pfm Member
I’ve heard a couple of your speakers at Scalford, we spoke both times, I really liked both pairs, the ones that did it for me were some in a relatively small room, upstairs I think. (You had a very large room once on the ground floor).