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...and they're cheap! Thought you guys (and gals) might find these interesting.
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How Sear's ugly can they make them?
They look like those horrible pictures on the side of vans or of gas tanks on choppers.
On looks alone they should sell based on the old adage about no one ever going broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
Might be ok for some people but I'll pass, they remind me of the speakers I saw years ago that you could order different art and they hung up on the wall like a painting. Those didn't do much for me either.
...actually I found some more info on the speakers. Steve Guttenberg wrote this about them for CNET...
"Though the panel will be available in painted finishes, the Urban Fidelity speakers will also feature art supplied by artists Liam Brazier, Craig Watkins, Herman Lee, Daniel Teixeria, Hyein Lee, Tobe Fonseca, Wojtek Polak, Maxime Archambault, and more. The speakers will be assembled in California, and the artists will be paid royalties for their work on each speaker sold.
Ray is a passionate 31-year-old audiophile, with a manufacturing background from the time he ran an automotive accessory company. The main reason he can bring out a high-end speaker that sells for $399 is Ray's speaker doesn't have a cabinet, which is usually the single most expensive part of any box speaker. Since the Urban Fidelity speaker has just one driver, it doesn't need a crossover network, and that parts saving also lowers manufacturing costs. A somewhat higher-end speaker, matching subwoofer, and power amplifier are all in the planning stages."
So for everyone who doesn't like the artsy look, it sounds like standard painted finishes will also be available. An just to be clear, I am not affiliated with the company, but I do dig the art.
Over and out.
Waxxy,
Thank You for the link and info. I have forwarded that to a couple of interns who are interested in high-end audio, but simply cannot afford the cost right now. This could be the right starting point for them :-)
...I got pretty excited about a new budget (I mean $299, c'mon) product made with ecology in mind, and manufactured in the US creating US jobs. I understand the artwork is not for everyone, but most of the responses are quite negative.
Time for some sunshine and fresh air? Maybe a little laughter or a hug?
I thought Hawthorne Audio, when I first saw them, but the price sure is reasobable, though in my opinion, they look like a bad acid trip.
But WTF, I am an old guy.
I think they may sell better if they can be made with a more sedated look ?
Some people really like the Hawthorne Open Baffle Speakers, and I love the image an open baffle arrangement provides.
I was curious about the crossovers, not much into there about the crossovers, or the parts used in them.
What is the efficiency, and I would like to see a response graph, that kind of stuff.
Certainly all good things, but the final product is aesthetically displeasing to me, and, seemingly, others.
Certainly art is in the eye of the beholder, but when you see ugly, it's the first thing you see and the first thing you react to.
"One this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" - Michael McClure
Hey, I am all for saving rainforests, and making jobs for Americans, but WHO is Josh Ray ?
If you want to market your speakers to us, the Asylum can be a tough place.
Tell us MORE about Josh Ray, and his qualifications to design a speaker please ?
Anyone can stick an Eminence driver on a vertical sheet of wood. is it a SPECIAL driver, made just for this speaker.
I think if you guys talk more about the electrical engineering that went into this speaker, vs the looks and environmentally friendly stuff, you will be better off.
I would have no problem buying a pair, and making Josh Ray some money.
In fact, I think it is kind of hokey marketing too try and persuade the jaded audiophiles here to buy these speakers, because money off each sale is donated back to the musicians.
People here have made Richard Vandersteen and David Wilson very wealthy Men.
...you say you are 57 years old. And yet your posts seem like that of a arrogant 20 something.
Why do you have to use words like F*** and Sh** if you wanted to claim that the OP was trying to advertise something? You seem offended by something or seem to know something about the OP and trying to vent out.
"If you want to market your speakers to us, the Asylum can be a tough place."I'm not trying to market anything to Inmates at the Asylum. I'm not involved with the company one teensy weensy bit. I saw the link on the Stereophile website, and posted it here because I thought a few inmates might find it interesting.
"In fact, I think it is kind of hokey marketing too try and persuade the jaded audiophiles here to buy these speakers, because money off each sale is donated back to the musicians."
Once again, I have nothing to do with the company. And some of the money goes to the artists who designed the graphics on the speakers...not musicians.
Edits: 08/02/12
You posted your link, shit did not go your way, you lamented about that, and now you correct me about the money going to the artists, not musicians.
Dude, that's marketing.
Don't be ashamed of it, but please don't bullshit an Asylum full of Bullshitters.
You may not have anything to do with this company, who really cares.
It's all good.
For some small speaker companies, the internet is the only way they can tell people about their speakers.
This Asylum if FULL of "Have anyone heard the Raindrop Speakers from Seattle Yet" posts, followed up by another sockpuppet who says "Yes, the Raindrop Speakers from Seattle have a very Liquid Midrange"
Shit, one pretty well known small speaker company has a "marketing department" that consists of 4 computers in a room, each running 2 different Internet Browsers (so the forum cookies don't conflict)
Each browser has a different forum profile. Whenever sales are slow, this speaker maker simply creates a thread on some internet forum (like this one)
Now, 4 computers, with 2 different Browsers on each, gives this speaker maker 8 "different forum profiles" to join in on the praises of his product, or to slam (point out weaknesses of his competition) with!
The threads real like infomercials. Those of us old timers who have been around the Internet Forums dedicated to speakers and high end audio see it all the time. But new fucks get sucked into the artificial feeding frenzy created by this bullshit all the time!
Who is the well known speaker companies with all of the computers?
"You posted your link, shit did not go your way, you lamented about that, and now you correct me about the money going to the artists, not musicians.
Dude, that's marketing.
Don't be ashamed of it, but please don't bullshit an Asylum full of Bullshitters"
I can see there has been some confusion. By trying to share what I thought was a new interesting product, I've come across as a shill. My appologies to all....I'm headed back to the Vinyl Asylum, you guys play too rough! (smiley face)
Thanks for posting what you did. It COULD be an important new product.
I would have never known about it, if not for you.
I'm so dis-interested in the speakers just based on their physical
appearance based on the artistic design concept that's pushed so hard into
the face that I'm not even willing to scratch the surface to see if there's any there there.
"One this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" - Michael McClure
Well, I guess I COULD live with the weird looks, IF they sounded good.
I am 57 years old, and had hair past my shoulders long before it was acceptable.
So, I try to be tolerant of things like tattoos and piercings that seem weird to me now.
The price seems perfectly right, IF they sound good, and may appeal to the new generation.
...two feet wide, silver and metallic gun-metal gray, with ribbed aluminum face plates, and a shameful amount of CNC machine bling-effects including gratuitous use of the company's logo, with garish CNC'd outrigging feet that make it look like a lunar lander...you'd get OOHS and AAHS!
It's an audiophile thing...
That said I hate the birds. Don't go much for the Asian calendar art, really. Looks great and the restaurant, but doesn't fit with my decore. Which is far from Ming Dynasty...
Cheers,
Presto
I have to agree with you for the most part. If I didn't have speakers/stands,etc. in storage all over my little house now, I'd consider giving them a shot. However,the main problem here is that I can't find a review or even the slightest comment on what the speaker sounds like in a real world set-up. As other inmates have brought up... 50 hz.bass out of an open baffle design with only an 8" driver (mounted high on a narrow baffle to boot) might be a stretch.
Are these to be placed in the room corners I wonder. They dont have to build the cabinets because we have the corners. Cheaper too. Marketing technique. Booms down to 50Hz.
Cheers
Bill
The specs may be skewed, but I don't think the intended market are audiophiles. The product seems much cooler than anything I could have bought for that kind of money when I was getting started in this crazy hobby.
I think the reason you don't see any reviews is because this is a new company who is still trying to get off the ground.
I would sooner open a vein than to have those bogosities in my listening room - awful!!Click the link and scroll down about 1/4 of the way. It looks like that chick with the dog is driving those speakers with her "lunchbox amp". Bwahahahahaha!!!
However, for $299 you get the speakers and a "sweet" t-shirt. Probably not a bad deal for chix who want a half-way decent rig...
-RW-
Edits: 08/02/12 08/02/12
They would give me a headache just looking at them, and probably listening to them.
LOL. That's funny stuff. How do you guys find these things?
Stereophile's webpage.
N/T
"One this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" - Michael McClure
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but they have no bass, I'm quite sure. Simple physics. These cannot do much below 150 or so due to the slender baffle, and you can't even EQ them as they will run out of Xmax in a hurry as well has have significant IMD due to the wide bandwidth being covered.
One would want to use these extreme nearfield to mitigate this issue.
Bass is supposed to sound big. 6.5" is not a woofer size.
May be they'd be good as headphones?
nt
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