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How high can you go??

hifijohn

hifijohn

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Even though I got out of high end audio many years ago I still like to go back in to see how insane can they get,and I must say they never disappoint.They latest in the insane world of audiophiles is the vox olympian by british company living voice.A four way with separate sub-woofer.As they say if you have to ask the price, you cant afford it, but you can buy two brand new 2019 Rolls-Royce Ghosts and still have a good $100K left over. I cant image there is much of a market for such stuff(I hate to even call them products), the audiophile world is very tiny to begin with and products like this are very expensive even by audiophile standards.

Youll notice for some strange reason the tweeter horn is rotated 45 degrees, Im sure there is a very good audiophile reason for this.
 
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hifijohn said:
As they say if you have to ask the price, you cant afford it, but you can buy two brand new 2019 Rolls-Royce Ghosts and still have a good $100K left over.

I cant image there is much of a market for such stuff.
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How many do you think they need to sell before seeing a profit?
 
Hobie1dog said:
For some people that's not much money.
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At some point it becomes obvious that "disposable income" varies widely. I can spend $10k on speakers just as easily as some spend $100 and others spend $1,000,000. I say let the big spenders spend and encourage them to do so over and over and over. There is no other way to get ultrahigh end gear into the used market.
 
210 kilos each for the mains - err, times 2.25, carry the one, 475 lb? Yikes. Purty though.
 
donprice said:
At some point it becomes obvious that "disposable income" varies widely. I can spend $10k on speakers just as easily as some spend $100 and others spend $1,000,000.
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I can spend $10k on speakers but I can't justify it. That's pretty much the way I think about most things - just because I can afford to spend more on something, is it worth it to me? I don't go cheap, but I generally also don't go for the high end. Even though I can afford a Mercedes E class, I'd be much more likely to buy a TOTL Honda Accord.

Unless it was a set of Infinity IRS Vs. Then I could justify $10k.
 
onwardjames said:
I once praised this legendary set of speakers, only to have AK'er Botrytis tell me how much they sucked. To be fair, he had actually heard them. Me, I just had a stiffy every time I saw them in magazines.
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I've heard that from some audiophiles. I've also heard others rave about them (such as Paul McGowan from PS Audio).
 
swechsler said:
I can spend $10k on speakers but I can't justify it. That's pretty much the way I think about most things - just because I can afford to spend more on something, is it worth it to me?
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Of course there is no direct relationship between disposable income and how it is disposed of or the joy/value generated from it. For some of us in the broadly defined middle class, not spending our disposable income is how we accumulate disposable income...and some of us do not. Enjoy the music and spend (or not) as you see fit :beerchug:
 
hifijohn said:
but you can buy two brand new 2019 Rolls-Royce Ghosts and still have a good $100K left over. (for the price of these speakers)
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Did I get the parathetical info correct? If so, curious where you got your pricing. Web says the Vox is €270,000 or about $302,000. The Ghost starts at $325,000. So you can get a stereo pair of speakers for about the price of a single Rolls Royce and have enough left over for a less expensive preamp or something else adequate for those speakers.

The Wilson WAMM Master Chronosonic is about $700,000.

Sure wish some folks would buy these speakers and put a few of the lesser 21st century speakers on get them out of the house pricing. Kinda like vintage was 25 years ago, cheap, cheap, cheap. I'd like to pick up some 15 year old speakers that sold for 5 figures for 3 figures.
 
hifijohn said:
Even though I got out of high end audio many years ago I still like to go back in to see how insane can they get,and I must say they never disappoint.
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I opened the this thread and thought it would be talking about audio, specifically speakers. Like maybe what are the frequency limits of your speakers.

But no we get threads here whining about the price of equipment, and snob post over something one can't afford.
 
4-2-7 said:
I opened the this thread and thought it would be talking about audio, specifically speakers. Like maybe what are the frequency limits of your speakers.

But no we get threads here whining about the price of equipment, and snob post over something one can't afford.
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OK. I bet they're super fabulous & you can hear every penny. They go so high, dogs go deaf just lookin' at 'em.
They go so low that they suck the thunder out of the sky.

For me, its really hard to think that $300k speakers are seriously about audio.
Mega bling maybe, but not audio. Regardless, I'll gladly take a gifted pair & report my conclusions.
 
Bob in WI said:
OK. I bet they're super fabulous & you can hear every penny. They go so high, dogs go deaf just lookin' at 'em.
They go so low that they suck the thunder out of the sky.

For me, its really hard to think that $300k speakers are seriously about audio.
Mega bling maybe, but not audio. Regardless, I'll gladly take a gifted pair & report my conclusions.
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Who cares what they cost you obviously not in the market for them let alone a $5000 pair, you'd probably be whining about that price as well.
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I read the 6 Moons review. IMO, the reviewer simply falls for the old trick of seeing precision parts, and then describing the sound with flooby dust words that support what he sees.

In the end, what is new? What's the innovation? I think there is none. Compression drivers, cone drivers, crossovers, and fancy furniture does not make a revolution in sound.

This looks more like a simple "audio jewelry" play than any sustained attack on high end speakers.

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Probably can't be discussed on an internet forum, but it's very hard for more money to raise the SQ bar in most homes.

If you start with some base line bookshelf speaker that is highly regarded, or widely regarded. You can make the following assumptions.

1/ more expense will buy some deeper bass
2/ more expense will buy higher SPL at the same distortion level.
3/ more expense will usually also mean physically larger speakers making them proportionally harder to integrate into the room acoustics.

But, how loud does a home speaker need to play.....really?
How much can the room be modified? Can most of the furniture be hauled out? Walls filled with sand? Acoustic tiles mounted in many places? Windows removed?

If that baseline bookshelf speaker is $200, and had low distortion, low coloration and 50Hz bass, and will play at 96dB in a 15x20 room, you are already at the 90% level of what can be accomplished with 100 year old tech. It's one heck of a long way to get to $500,000 worth of improved sound.
 
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