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These are from '96, but the review was just reposted on the Stereophile Web site. These very expensive speakers look like a pair of one-eyed, big-mouthed aliens with bizarrely styled 'fros.
Thought others might enjoy this.
Jim
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Nothing is ugly.
Cheers
Bill
No speakers look so good that you would have them in a room for looks, not hooked up. It would be best if you could hear the perfect sound and not see any speakers at all. Speakers are ugly.
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Hide it~ nothing looks better in Audio gear, than invisible....
Custom installations have the best looking audio equipment. Especially if you can't see them. Music is to be heard, not seen.
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Hide it~ nothing looks better..
I find them to be quite intersting in a good way to look at. I am sure they are also interesting sounding.
Opening page
Home page
English (?) introduction
The correct knowledge of sound quality provided by Joly
Black Knight info
PC speakers
Ouch, my head hurts.
Brian Walsh
Central Fest is on Saturday, August 25th, and you're invited!
The ad copy reads like it was written by Romy the Cat. It has his bumptious incoherence.
Great tangent, thanks!
The product literature on the site may be amusing, but the speakers to me don't appear to be particularly ugly.................
Thee are ugly on the inside Todd, on the inside...
The O'Heocha (R2) D2...... These loudspeakers look like space aliens................
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Thanks Todd, LOL.
I am suprised no none has mentioned these.
NT
I'm guessing whomever came up with the idea of faceted baffle edges never thought they'ed be contributing so much to contemporary enclosure design.
Believe it or not, the facets are one of the *least* copied parts of the Avalon speakers. These have never been influential in the marketplace, but they have been *extremely* influential among other designers.
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Horn loaded from the very top down to 100 Hz - check.
Powered woofer below 100 Hz - check.
Largest part of horn at the top of the speaker - check.
Roughly as tall as a man and twice as wide - check.
Smaller upper midrange horn about 12" wide - check.
Very small "bullet" HF horn - check.
Skeletal "framework" in back rather than any kind of traditional cabinet - check.
Nah. You're right, Betsy. Nothing in common. Nothing to see here. Move along.
The avantgardes are the most *visually* distracting speakers I've seen.
... However nearly any speaker designed for home use is not something I’d call ugly.
Certainly none posted in this thread seem ugly to me.
Smile
Sox
vivid
I thought it was such an effort of these to make a statement, akin I believe to the Acura TL or Nissan cars, too bad.
"Run away! Run away! Run away!"
(In case you haven't had kids in the last 15 years or so, that's a Teletubbies reference.)
all the same, little boxes with little drivers.
I consider the original to be a work of art. It was too expensive to manufacture so the II was released.
-Wendell
I think I've only seen photos of the II. Google image search wasn't much help.
I have not been able to find a picture. My friend, Brooks Berdan, had the first pair in this country. He later moved them to his home. I suspect they are still there. I will contact his widow to confirm and ask her to send me a picture. If I get it, I will post here.
-Wendell
The half-dozen people I've spoken with who have heard the Eurythmie II have all liked them them and some of them are not particularly well disposed toward horns.
Nor am I but they are amazing. Way out of my budget and the upstream components need to be of a similar pedigree putting them even further out.
-Wendell
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All that's needed is two drum mallets attached to the structure on each side behind the woofer, two ears from a stuffed rabbit on top, and the "Energizer" logo printed across the woofer diaphragm.........
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Kinda' looks like a Sponge Bob Square Pants character.
Dean.
reelsmith's axiom: Its going to be used equipment when I sell it, so it may as well be used equipment when I buy it.
Difficult to take serious...
Dead Ringer!
…Sponge Bob and that octopus who lives next door perhaps?
Ha!
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BITE you!
...regards...tr
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Beatnik's stuff http://web.me.com/jnr1/Site/Beatniks_Pictures.html
uglier than my image of DIY horns made w ALE Japanese drivers. See my post below.
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“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead"
― Charles Bukowski
Great for the three-tiered coffin look!
they look great to me!
may the bridges I burn light the way...
I imagine they sound better, though.
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“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead"
― Charles Bukowski
they have the perfect physique :)
from Noel Lee's attorneys first thing Monday morning.
i well remember the Spica Angelus as being something that even EYE wouldnt want in the living room. never heard them though.
quite a few years ago i went to brooks berdan's store and the eurythmie was what was playing (dead can dance) and they sounded pretty good to me but i was there about a TT issue so i didnt spend much time with them.
...regards...tr
you mean you weren't inspired by the Flying Nuns?
"For a nominal service fee,
you can reach nirvana tonight."
i always wanted to hear them as i try to keep an open mind. my friend has tc50s using a RSL speedwoofer and they completely disappear as the source of sound.
...regards...tr
And while I might not have agreed with Steve that they nearly equalled the Quad 63, they were an open and fine performer for much less money.
"For a nominal service fee,
you can reach nirvana tonight."
Lives in the same zip as Jar Jar Binks.
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...oh, I get it - they are French made.
“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead"
― Charles Bukowski
Your photo is of Wilson Audio Alexandria XLF £200 K in the UK. Using his usual mostly trash music Kessler says ' It was a sublime minestrone of sound. seasoned to perfection' Paul Miller editor HFN says the XLF is the most authentic speaker we've ever heard . It's as big a leap in performance as the Quad ESL was 1957 ? eh! the Quad ELS 57 had no real bass and because of the beaming effect I found it totally unlistenable.
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Thank you for getting the name right.
Regards,
Geoff
I keep expecting them to transform themselves into something else and walk, drive or otherwise scamper away.
"One this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" - Michael McClure
She'd have them in our living room any day, thinks they are fine pieces of art. I've always liked them. There's something Alice In Wonderlandish about them.I'm sure I'll repeat myself yet again when this subject comes up next year :-)
marc g. - audiophile by day, music lover by night
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They obviously aren't to everyone's taste but IMO far more crudely designed speakers are sold everyday. I could give a toss as to what "most people" think about aesthetic questions.
See...
I always felt the Eurythmie's looked like Gerald Scarfe character illustrations from "The Wall".
"Everyone has a plan — until they get punched in the face" - Mike Tyson
See ya. Dave
Newt and Nancy aren't bad choices, but Tip beats them hands down in this "beauty" contest.
Newt and Nancy are the ugliest, hands down.
How true. You really nailed it.
I throw my windows open wide and call to you across the sky.
:-)!
Warmest
Timothy Bailey
The Skyptical Mensurer and Audio Scrounger
And gladly would he learn and gladly teach - Chaucer. ;-)!
'Still not saluting.'
n
These eyeball ones from Cabasse are something else and can give anyone the creeps, but not as much as their previous model of which I can't find a picture!
Those Cabasse truly look like a prop from Fritz Lang's Metropolis, or possibly the Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Definitely of a piece with early-20th century sci-fi conceptions of what "the future" would look like.
Most don't like their looks.
Warmest
Timothy Bailey
The Skyptical Mensurer and Audio Scrounger
And gladly would he learn and gladly teach - Chaucer. ;-)!
'Still not saluting.'
but some people can't cope with the size of Maggie panels - particularly when they are in braced stands. :-))
Regards,
Andy
I was one of the first people to assemble the Maggie kits (rolled up) for a customer of Duratone and have admired them and Apogees ribbons - for me the only dipoles I'd want to own would be:i) ELS's doubled / room-loaded / assisted by subs - to do bass and play loud, and with their frame's 'nailed' so 'they dinnae move.'
ii) Good rigid and dead OB's with 120 hz to well above 4 kHz covered by one main driver an efficient to HE (but a truly WR and uncoloured) dynamic driver (6.5 inch minimum and probably the Audax 17cm item).
IE not doing ELF or EHF.OB bass from a single long-throw 18" Eq'd and timed - possibly off a big PP or PPP valve amp with highish ELF Q down to 18 Hz as part of the design, CCS'd driver stage.
Treble via a wave-guide and ribbon suitably Eq'd and timed. Mids and EHF also valve powered, treble likely SE DHT or SE FET, for the mids two mono PP pure-A amps with CCS'd output and driver stages, LCLCLC PSU with commercial polyprops, and 'just enough' NFB.
It should sound like a point-source, and have clean dipole bass.
See the thread ref'd below at Speakers.
Warmest
Timothy Bailey
The Skyptical Mensurer and Audio Scrounger
And gladly would he learn and gladly teach - Chaucer. ;-)!
'Still not saluting.'
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when this topic was discussed years ago. Here remains my reaction:
Johnny Quest monster
Thems are the ones I was talking about!
Creepy!
This is my favorite ugly one.
"Asylums with doors open wide,
Where people had paid to see inside,
For entertainment they watch his body twist
Behind his eyes he says, 'I still exist.'"
YUP.
...regards...tr
Frightening. Is it loaded?
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In a huge loft space, say 28' x 40' with 12' ceilings, with a steam-punk decorating scheme they'd look right at home. They are absurdly out of scale for that room.
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n/t
so der ya go
Somebody tell me that's miniature toy furniture, and not a real room!
Anyway, excellent positioning for the potted plant. Not.
In a room full of Stickley furniture... Damn!
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reelsmith's axiom: Its going to be used equipment when I sell it, so it may as well be used equipment when I buy it.
nt.
........I was a vegetarian for 15 minutes... until the main course.
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And will for now on, thanks.
;_)
While they may not be the "ugliest" in terms of aesthetics (which, by the way, is in the eye of the beholder), the fact that they cost $5 million USD makes them obscenely ugly, IMO.
Jim
Simplify.
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Short’s the best position they is. Bullet in the Brain
They look like some sort of crazy primitive tribal ceremonial mask. Apparently they don't sound any better than they look, after skimming through the review.
egg cases that wash up on East Coast beaches.Ugly of course is in the eye of the beholder. Cthulhu might find both those and the B&W Nautilus attractive.
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At least these, when grown up, are delicious.
WW
New Orthophonic High Fidelity
Uncanny resemblance!
jca
Not that I would want a pair but there is no shortage of ugliness on the market.
Just like with cars, there is a serious lack of aesthetic sensibility these days with most products.
van der Rohe would be really disgusted.
These Kleinhorns look alot more like industrial air conditioning outlets that one would see on the roof of a commercial building.
I know that form follows function, but wow!
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