Loudspeaker & Audio Design

[MidnightSensi]

Audioholics is about finding gear that is functional, a good value and logical. However, I really like product design, and some of the high-end (and even entry level stuff) is cool to look at.

This thread is in off topic because it isn't about achieving good sound, it is about admiring some of the nicer designs in audio.

Please keep flaming all the pretty (yet often overpriced and perhaps mechanically comprimised) designs to some other thread, we all know, this is just about the design part of it. Pointing out deficiencies is fine, I just don't want to make it the focus of the thread.

I'll start:

Zu Audio Druid

 

[lsiberian]

Just cool looking with a wireless sub too.

 

[Matt34]

He doesn't have the best pictures on his site but I think these open baffle speakers are an interesting design and I would love to have a pair.

The Pluto's are just plan weird looking:

 

[jostenmeat]

Audioholics is about finding gear that is functional, a good value and logical. However, I really like product design, and some of the high-end (and even entry level stuff) is cool to look at.

Hm, sorry if this doesn't quite fit the thread, but it is at least interesting to look at. This is at least the third time I've posted about this here, but the last time was a year and a half ago.

 

[jostenmeat]

He doesn't have the best pictures on his site but I think these open baffle speakers are an interesting design and I would love to have a pair.

TBH, that pair's finish looks better than what I've typically seen in photos. In fact, it's the best looking set of Orion's I think I've seen.

You might have noticed the thread already, but I thought this post, albeit by a proud owner, was interesting. He owns the Plutos too.

 

[Rickster71]

Here is a link to a few:
http://freshome.com/2008/07/06/17-cool-speakers-designs-that-look-better-than-they-sound/

 

[Rickster71]

These look good too: http://www.scaena.com/news.htm

 

[STRONGBADF1]

He doesn't have the best pictures on his site but I think these open baffle speakers are an interesting design and I would love to have a pair.

http://www.linkwitzlab.com/images/photos/Naples-red-web.jpg[/IMG[/QUOTE]

I would like to hear these also. Rip van Woofer (a mod from the past) made a beautiful pair. Here's a pic...
[IMG]http://bruce.coppola.name/audio/audio%20images/orion_pictures/oriongrille.jpg

I wonder what ever happened to him?

 

[MidnightSensi]

Ah, nice, pearl! Check this out:

Paul Reed Smith

Dynaudio MC15 ... I dig the 'fin' stands especially.

I also like some pro-audio stuff: Allen & Heath Xone 92:

Very nice mixer too... even down to that matte finish so you don't get glare in your eyes in the booth.



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Awesome posts guys!

 

[Swerd]

I always liked this one

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[dkane360]

I always liked this one

Wow that is awesome looking. I want to build one lol

 

[STRONGBADF1]

JBL Paragon

 

[MidnightSensi]

That is really cool! Is that a old JBL or something they make now?


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Seas "Exotic" full range

I almost put these in a show car once, until I found out how much they cost.

 

[STRONGBADF1]

That is really cool! Is that a old JBL or something they make now?

Introduced in 1957. Here's a link I found. http://www.audioheritage.org/html/profiles/jbl/paragon.htm

 

[MidnightSensi]

Cabasse Riga:

I have mixed emotions about the design. The base looks like it is painted metallic, which is cool. Where I feel it misses it is with the wood. Both of those woods look a little cheap to me. It needs a blonde wood, perhaps a birdseye maple or something.

 

[adwilk]

 

[MidnightSensi]

JL Audio Gotham:

Another composite speaker...To my understanding, they build this using resin transfer molding. Basically they put the glass fibers in, and then close the mold and inject the resin using vacuum. It's construction is shaped like that for design, but also for increased stiffness using geometry.

 

[WmAx]

I always liked this one....................

Oh, how I would LOVE to measure the upper-mid and treble band omnipolar modular units!

-Chris

 

[Matt34]

I was trying to think of the name of another company that makes something really similar to these Jamo's when the thread first started.

I was able to think of it now, Emerald Physics CS2.3

 

[basspig]

Thanks for the memory! The last time I saw/heard a JBL Paragon was in 1976. It was at the home of the president of a company that I was working for and a close family friend.